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LCMC is congregational in structure, rejecting the historic episcopate which was adopted by the ELCA, the denomination to which many LCMC members had previously belonged, in the Called to Common Mission agreement. The beliefs of the LCMC are based on the Bible and the Lutheran confessions in the Book of Concord.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
The LCMC describes itself as a "centrist" Lutheran organization and permits the ordination of women. This sets the LCMC apart the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, the two major confessionalist Lutheran bodies in the U.S. In keeping with its emphasis on congregational authority, the LCMC rarely makes ...
As of October 2010 LCMC has over 550 congregations with 500 in the United States. [50] At the 2011 ELCA Churchwide Assembly, it was reported that in 2010, the ELCA had a net membership loss of 270,349, or 5.95% of its baptized membership, and a net loss of 340 congregations.
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is the second largest mainline denomination with approximately 2.8 million members and 8,500 congregations at the end of 2023. [20] Episcopal Church (TEC) is third largest, with 1.6 million active baptized members, [21] of whom 1.4 million members are located in the United States in 2022. [22]
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