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a Name is formatted this way to avoid confusion with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod; b Name is formatted this way to avoid confusion with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod; c Synod is Non-geographic, consisting of congregations of Slovak heritage; d Some congregations in Northwestern Wyoming have elected to be a part of the Montana ...
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Culp, Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania: St. Michael's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Mt. Airy) Pennsylvania: St. Peter's Kierch: Pennsylvania: Trinity Lutheran Church (Reading, Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania: Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church (Flourtown, Pennsylvania) Pennsylvania: Zion Lutheran Church (East ...
However, most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations, namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
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 ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church can refer to many different Lutheran churches in the world. Among them are the following: U.S. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ...
Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore; Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg; Bishops of Schleswig, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein (1925–1976), North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008)
The NLCA changed its name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) in 1946 as part of its Americanization process. In 1960, the ELC joined with Lutheran churches of German and Danish backgrounds to form The American Lutheran Church, the first Lutheran body in North America to have multiple ethnic backgrounds.
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