Not to be confused with Confession in the Lutheran Church.
Church of the Lutheran Confession
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Classification
Lutheran
Orientation
Confessional Lutheran
Theology
Old Lutheran[1] repristination of Lutheran Orthodoxy
Polity
Congregational
Associations
Eglise Lutherienne de Confession du Congo · Crown of Glory Lutheran Church (in Ghana) · The Church of the Lutheran Confession of India · The Berea Evangelical Lutheran Church (in India) · The Church of the Lutheran Confession of Kenya Etago · Church of the Lutheran Confession of Myanmar · Himalayan Church of the Lutheran Confession (in Nepal) · The Nigerian Church of the Lutheran Confession · The Church of the Lutheran Confession of East Africa · Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne de Confession du Togo[2]
Region
24 States within the United States and various missions
Founder
Paul Albrecht, former District President of the Dakota-Montana district of the WELS
Origin
1960 Sleepy Eye, Minnesota.[3]
Separated from
mainly the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Separations
The Lutheran Church of East Africa (in Tanzania)[2]· Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship[4]
Congregations
85
Members
8,631 baptized[5] Foreign mission churches total about 50,000 baptized[6]
The Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC) is a conservative Christian religious body theologically adhering to confessional Lutheran doctrine. Founded in 1960 in Minnesota, it has approximately 85 congregations in 24 U.S. states, and missions in Canada, India, Africa, Nepal, and Myanmar.
The CLC maintains its headquarters at its ministerial college; Immanuel Lutheran High School, College & Seminary in Eau Claire, Wisconsin.
^Nelson, E. Clifford. The Lutherans in North America. Revised ed. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1980. p. 509
^ abLutheran Missions Contact List
^Tiefel, Mark. Why Another School?: The Doctrinal History and Reasons for the Formation of Immanuel Lutheran High School, College, and Seminary. December 10, 2008. p.33, Appendix B: Timeline of Events.
^"A Brief Study of the Lutheran Churches in America" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-11-21. Retrieved 2010-04-20.
^LWF Statistics 2009 Archived June 4, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
^St. Louis Today article: The sermon's in the mail Archived 2012-07-16 at archive.today
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