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In 2008 OLCA was renamed as the Independent Lutheran Diocese. The ILD currently consists of eight churches. As of 2022, there were 22 pastors serving in the United States along with three international pastors in Canada, Japan and Australia, with three church bodies in altar and pulpit fellowship in India and Myanmar.
Roeber, A. G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America (1998) Wengert, Timothy J. and Mark Granquist, eds. Dictionary of Luther and the Lutheran Traditions (2017) Wiederaenders, Robert C., Historical Guide to Lutheran Church Bodies of North America, 2nd Edition Saint Louis: Lutheran Historical Conference, 1998.
The Archbishop holds authority throughout Estonia, assisted by Bishops of regional dioceses, [1] including the Extra-Estonian Diocese, which had been a separate church until 2010. [2] The College of Bishops is usually larger, due to the practice of giving most retiring Bishops the status of Bishop Emeritus (or Archbishop Emeritus ).
From 1967 to 2011 the LC-I was known as the International Lutheran Fellowship. [3] The LC-I has a mixed episcopal/congregational structure, with four dioceses in North America , including the Northeastern Diocese, the Mid-America Diocese, the Southern Diocese, and the Western Diocese. [ 4 ]
Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America: 2006--[280] United States: General Lutheran Church: 2014 [302] [285] United States: Illinois Lutheran Conference: 1979--[286] United States: Independent Lutheran Diocese [J] 2008--[287] United States: Laestadian Lutheran Church [I] 1973--[288] United States: Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
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 Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces. The AFLC is not an incorporated synod, but a free association. Each local congregation is a separate ...