List of Lutheran denominations in North America
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Over 40 different Lutheran denominations currently exist in North America. 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.
Active denominations
Source:[1]
- American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC)
- Apostolic Lutheran Church of America (ALCA)
- Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches (ACLC)
- Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC)
- Augsburg Lutheran Churches (ALC)
- Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations (CALC)
- Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America (CLBA)
- Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC)
- Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC)
- Conservative Lutheran Association (CLA)
- Eielsen Synod
- Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELK)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC)
- Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America (ELCM)
- Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA)
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS)
- General Lutheran Church (GLC)[2]
- Illinois Lutheran Conference (ILC)[3]
- Independent Lutheran Diocese (ILD)[4]
- Laestadian Lutheran Church (LLC)
- Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (LELCA)
- Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC)
- Lutheran Church - International (LC-I)
- Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS)
- Lutheran Churches of the Reformation (LCR)
- Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship (LCCF)[5]
- Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC)
- The Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church (GCEPC)
- Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA (LMS-USA)
- North American Lutheran Church (NALC)
- Old Apostolic Lutheran Church
- Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference (OLCC)
- Protes'tant Conference
- United Lutheran Mission Association (ULMA)
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS)
Defunct denominations
Most of the now-defunct North American Lutheran denominations merged or were absorbed into larger bodies. The following is an incomplete list.
- American Evangelical Lutheran Church
- American Lutheran Church
- American Lutheran Church (1930)
- Anti-Missourian Brotherhood
- Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
- Augustana Catholic Church (ALCC)
- Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Augustana Orthodox & Evangelical Lutheran Synod
- Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
- Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America
- Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
- English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and Other States
- English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the Northwest
- Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)
- Evangelical Lutheran Federation (disbanded 1998)[6]
- Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America
- Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa
- Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod
- Evangelical Synod of North America
- Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations
- Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
- General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
- Hauge Synod
- Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America
- Lutheran Church in America
- Lutheran Confessional Synod
- Lutheran Free Church
- Lutheran Synod of Buffalo
- National Evangelical Lutheran Church
- Norwegian Augustana Synod
- Pennsylvania Ministerium
- Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
- Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
- United Evangelical Lutheran Church
- United Lutheran Church in America
- United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America
- United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South
See also
References
- ^ "Church Relations - Resources". Archived from the original on 2010-12-22. Retrieved 2012-04-12.
- ^ "General Lutheran Church". Retrieved October 31, 2017.
- ^ "Illinois Lutheran Conference".
- ^ "Independent Lutheran Diocese".
- ^ "LCCF - Faith followed by Confession - Home".
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2011-07-28. Retrieved 2010-08-25.
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Further reading
- Arand, Charles P, and Robert Kolb, eds. The Lutheran Confessions: History and Theology of the Book of Concord (2012)
- Bodensieck, Julius, ed. The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free
- Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993)
- Brug, John F., Fredrich II, Edward C., Schuetze, Armin W., WELS and Other Lutherans. Milwaukee: Northwestern Publishing House, 1995. ISBN 0-8100-0543-3.
- Granquist, Mark. Lutherans in America: A New History (2015)
- Meyer, Carl S. Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (1986)
- 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.