The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of twenty Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist) and United Protestant regional churches and denominations in Germany, which collectively encompasses the vast majority of Protestants in that country. In 2019, the EKD had a membership of 20,713,000 members, or 24.9% of the German population. It constitutes one of the largest national Protestant bodies in the world. Church offices managing the federation are located in Hannover-Herrenhausen, Lower Saxony. Many of its members consider themselves Lutherans.
The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church was a Lutheran regional church in Northern Germany which emerged from a merger of four churches in 1977 and merged with two more churches in 2012. The NEK largely covered the area of the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg where it was the most important Christian denomination. It had 2.1 million members in 595 parishes, constituting 46% of the population in its ambit.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia was a Lutheran member church of the umbrella Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD). The seat of the church was in Eisenach. The church covered those parts of the state of Thuringia that were not part of the former Province of Saxony. It was the largest Protestant denomination in this area.
The United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) was founded on July 8, 1948, in Eisenach, Germany. Its total membership is 8.6 million people. The Member Churches of this organisation are in full fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). All its member churches belong to the Evangelical Church in Germany, with which it co-operates closely. It has recently been reduced from an independent legal entity to an administrative unit within the larger Evangelical Church in Germany.
The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International Lutheran Council (ILC). The SELK has about 33,000 members in 174 congregations. The seat of SELK is in Hanover.
Lutheran viewpoints concerning homosexuality are diverse because there is no one worldwide body which represents all Lutherans. The Lutheran World Federation, a worldwide 'communion of churches' and the largest global body of Lutherans, contains member churches on both sides of the issue. However, other Lutherans, including the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference and International Lutheran Council, completely reject homosexuality.
Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche may refer to:
The Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Switzerland and Liechtenstein is an organization of five Lutheran churches in Basel and Northwestern Switzerland, Bern, Geneva, Zurich, and Vaduz (Liechtenstein). It was founded in 1967 and represented 6500 baptized members in 1999, decreasing to 3,794 baptized members by the end of 2019. It is a member of the Lutheran World Federation since 1979.
The Lutheran Church in Ireland is a Lutheran church, operating across the island of Ireland.
Zion-St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church, formerly known as Deutsche Evangelische Kirche von Yorkville and Zion Lutheran Church, is a historic Lutheran church at 339-341 East 84th Street in Yorkville, Manhattan, New York City. The congregation is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Seward County, Nebraska. It is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Seward County, Nebraska, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map.
St. Paul's United Church of Christ of Laramie was founded in 1886 as the first German language congregation in Wyoming. The church building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The cornerstone was laid on July 13, 1890, three days after statehood. Clergy from Chicago and the local Christian, Methodist, Episcopal, Presbyterian and Baptist Churches participated in the ceremony, with an address by Dr. John Wesley Hoyt, former Governor of Wyoming Territory and at the time first president of the University of Wyoming. The building was completed and dedicated on January 18, 1891. It is the oldest church structure in Laramie continuously used by the same congregation. With its stained glass windows and heavy wooden furnishings, St. Paul's is reminiscent of rural German churches. Those elaborate windows and its many simplified Gothic elements make the building unique among Lutheran churches in Wyoming.
George Anthony Berlinghof was a German-born architect who designed a number of important buildings in Lincoln and other cities in Nebraska. Some of his surviving works are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
The German Evangelical Church Confederation was a formal federation of 28 regional Protestant churches (Landeskirchen) of Lutheran, Reformed or United Protestant administration or confession. It existed during the Weimar Republic from 1922 until being replaced by the German Evangelical Church in 1933. It was a predecessor body to the Evangelical Church in Germany.
Evangelische Lutherische Emanuels Kirche, also known as Emmanuel Evangelical Lutheran Church and Hill Church, is a historic Lutheran church complex and national historic district located near Dubois in Harbison Township, Dubois County, Indiana. The main church was built in 1901, and is a one-story, rectangular High Victorian Gothic style frame building. It has a front gable roof and rests on a stone foundation. It features a large steeple structure consisting of a square tower, octagonal drum, and spire. Also on the property are the contributing cemetery, schoolhouse (1889), and parsonage (1891).
The St. John's German Evangelical Lutheran Church, near Lyons, Nebraska, was built in 1902. Also known as Deutsche Ev. Luth. St. Johannes Kirche, it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. The listing included two contributing buildings and a contributing site. The location of the site is not disclosed by the National Register. The building has been termed "an excellent example of a German folk version of the Gothic Revival style" and described as "one of the finest and least altered frame churches in Nebraska."
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden is a Lutheran denomination in Germany. It is a member of the Lutheran World Federation, which it joined in 1968. It is also a member of the Conference of European Churches. There are about 3,500 members in seven congregations.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Peru is a Lutheran denomination in Peru, founded by a group of German pastors in 1924 in Lima, in association with the Evangelical Church of Germany. It is a member of the Lutheran World Federation, which it joined in 1957. It is a member of the Latin American Council of Churches. It is commonly known as Christuskirche. The church offer services in both German and Spanish languages.
Evangelische Lutherische Dreienigkeit Kirche, also known as the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church Complex, is a historic church building in Grand Island, Nebraska. It was built in 1894-1896 by two German immigrants, Jacob and William Scheffel. Others on the building committee were E. Wiederaenders, F. Pribnow, J. Ruff, J. Schinkel and F. Eggers.. The congregation served pioneers from Germany. The building was designed in the Romanesque Revival architectural style. It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since December 1, 1986.
