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The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was created in 1962 by a merger among the United Lutheran Church in America (created in 1918 by an earlier merger of three German Lutheran synods in the eastern U.S.); Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Swedish ethnicity with some dating to the colonial era; the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of ...
Lutheran churches of Scandinavian origin, such as the Church of Sweden and Church in Kenya, affirm apostolic succession and are in the historical episcopate; [3] nevertheless, some within the ELCA argued that the historical episcopate would contradict the doctrine that the church exists wherever the Word of God is preached and sacraments are ...
Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America (ELCM) is a Lutheran church body based in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania.Currently the ELCM has active congregations in Pennsylvania, [1] New York, and Virginia; as well as mission efforts across the United States.
American Evangelical Lutheran Church; American Lutheran Church (The American Lutheran Church [1960–1987]) American Lutheran Church (1930) (1930–1960) Anti-Missourian Brotherhood; Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC 1978–1987) Augustana Catholic Church (ALCC) Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Lutheran Church–International has an Evangelical Catholic churchmanship and teaches that its clergy are ordained in lines of apostolic succession. [11] The Lutheran Church–International has a threefold ministry of bishops, priests, and deacons.
The American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC, also known as The AALC or TAALC) is a Lutheran church body based in the United States. It was formed on November 7, 1987, as a continuation of the American Lutheran Church denomination, the majority of which merged with the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.
The Augsburg Lutheran Churches was formed in 2001 in response to the Called to Common Mission, an agreement between the Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in the United States, establishing full communion between them.