Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) [1] is the successor to the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America except that it is international in scope rather than restricted to North America.
First founded in 1993 with thirteen confessional Lutheran national churches as members, the Conference has grown to twenty members today. Plenary sessions are held every three years. To date there have been five plenary meetings (1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008), with regional meetings held in the intervening years.
The organization rejects the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.
[edit] Membership
Member church bodies confess "the canonical books of the Old and New Testament as the verbally inspired and inerrant Word of God and submits to this Word of God as the only infallible rule and authority in all matters of doctrine, faith, and life."[1] They also accept "the Confessions of the Evangelical Lutheran Church contained in the Book of Concord of 1580, not in so far as, but because they are a correct exposition of the pure doctrine of the Word of God." [2]
Members cannot be in fellowship with church bodies whose doctrine or practice deviate from the confessional standard of the CELC.[3]
Member church bodies sorted by country in alphabetical order:
- Australia
- Austria
- Bulgaria
- Cameroon
- Canada
- WELS-Canada (Part of Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod)
- Czech Republic
- Finland
- Germany
- Indonesia
- Japan
- Latvia
- Malawi
- Mexico
- Nigeria
- Norway
- Peru
- Portugal
- Lutheran Church of Portugal (Associate member)
- Puerto Rico
- Russia
- South Korea
- Sweden
- Ukraine
- United States of America
- Zambia
[edit] References
- ^ Constitution of the CELC, Art. 2, Sect. 1
- ^ Constitution of the CELC, Art. 2, Sect. 2
- ^ Constitution of the CELC, Art. 4, Sect. 1
[edit] External links
- The CELC website
- The CELC constitution, as well as the CELC confession of faith
- Scholarly articles about the CELC
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