Back Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada German Kanadan evankelis-luterilainen kirkko Finnish Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada French Ewangelicko-Luterański Kościół w Kanadzie Polish Igreja Evangélica Luterana no Canadá Portuguese Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada SIMPLE Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Kanada Swedish

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationMainline Lutheran
TheologyModerate to Liberal
PolityModified episcopal polity
National BishopSusan Johnson
HeadquartersWinnipeg, Manitoba
Origin1986
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Merger of
Congregations519
Members95,000[1]
Official websitewww.elcic.ca Edit this at Wikidata

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; French: Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000[2] baptized members in 519 congregations,[3] with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–Canada, having 47,607 baptized members.[4] Together with the LCC and the Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations, it is one of only three all-Canadian Lutheran denominations. It is a member of the Lutheran World Federation, the Canadian Council of Churches, the World Council of Churches, and the Anglican-Lutheran North American grouping Churches Beyond Borders. According to the 2021 Canadian census, a larger number of 328,045 adherents identify as Lutheran.[5]

  1. ^ https://www.lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2020/documents/lwi-2019-statistics-en-20200825.pdf Archived 2020-11-14 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  2. ^ https://www.lutheranworld.org/sites/default/files/2020/documents/lwi-2019-statistics-en-20200825.pdf Archived 2020-11-14 at the Wayback Machine [bare URL PDF]
  3. ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2017-01-01. Retrieved 2017-02-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  4. ^ LCC Summarized Statistics 2019-2022 Lutheran Church–Canada
  5. ^ "Census Profile, 2021 Census of Population". statcan.gc.ca. Statistics Canada. Retrieved April 24, 2024.

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