The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1988 by the merging of three churches and currently having about 4.70 million baptized members, it is the largest of all the Lutheran denominations in the United States and the fifth-largest Protestant denomination. The next two largest Lutheran denominations are the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod .

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  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1988 by the merging of three churches and currently having about 4.70 million baptized members, it is the largest of all the Lutheran denominations in the United States and the fifth-largest Protestant denomination. The next two largest Lutheran denominations are the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod . There are also many smaller Lutheran church bodies in the United States. The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States. The ELCA also has congregations in the Caribbean region and one congregation in the border town of Windsor, Ontario, a member of the Slovak Zion Synod. Before 1986, some of the congregations that form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada were part of the ELCA's predecessor churches. As of the acceptance of the document Called to Common Mission in the year 2000, it is the only American Lutheran denomination in full communion with the Episcopal Church, which is the U.S. branch of the Anglican Communion. The ordination of women as pastors (ministers of Word and Sacrament) predates the ELCA and began in 1970, in the former Lutheran Church in America. Lutheran ministerial clergy are referred to as pastors or, less commonly, priests and have somewhat similar sacramental and leadership functions as their Roman Catholic counterparts, modified by the Reformation conviction that ministry ultimately must be carried out by all members. (en)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ELCA, är USA:s största samfund inom den evangelisk-lutherska traditionen och den näst största medlemskyrkan inom Lutherska världsförbundet. Teologiskt anses ELCA vara den mest liberala av de lutherska kyrkorna i USA, och står Svenska Kyrkan nära i många frågor. Till skillnad från de mer konservativa kyrkorna som Missourisynoden och Wisconsinsynoden accepterar ELCA kvinnliga präster. ELCA bildades 1988 genom en sammanslagning av tre äldre lutherska kyrkor, American Lutheran Church, Lutheran Church in America och Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. (sv)
  • Die Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ist eine evangelische Kirche in den USA. Der Verwaltungssitz der ELCA befindet sich in Chicago. Die ELCA gilt als die liberalste unter den lutherischen Kirchen in den USA. (de)
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  • United States & Caribbean (en)
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  • Presiding Bishop - The Rev. Mark Hanson Vice President - Carlos Peña Secretary - David Swartling Treasurer - Christina Jackson-Skelton (en)
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  • 1988 (xsd:integer)
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  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (en)
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  • Interdependent local, regional, and national expressions with modified episcopal polity (en)
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  • The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. Formed in 1988 by the merging of three churches and currently having about 4.70 million baptized members, it is the largest of all the Lutheran denominations in the United States and the fifth-largest Protestant denomination. The next two largest Lutheran denominations are the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod . (en)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, ELCA, är USA:s största samfund inom den evangelisk-lutherska traditionen och den näst största medlemskyrkan inom Lutherska världsförbundet. (sv)
  • Die Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ist eine evangelische Kirche in den USA. Der Verwaltungssitz der ELCA befindet sich in Chicago. Die ELCA gilt als die liberalste unter den lutherischen Kirchen in den USA. (de)
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  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (en)
  • Kościół Ewangelicko-Luterański w Ameryce (pl)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (sv)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (de)
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