Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia information
Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Lutheran
Polity
Episcopal-synodical
Bishop-General
Ivan Eľko
Associations
Lutheran World Federation World Council of Churches Conference of European Churches Community of Protestant Churches in Europe
Region
Slovakia
Origin
1918
Separated from
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary
Congregations
326
Members
286,907 [1]
Official website
https://www.ecav.sk/
The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovakia (in Slovak Evanjelická cirkev augsburského vyznania na Slovensku, ECAV) is the only Lutheran church in Slovakia. The Church is a member of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in Slovakia,[2] and the Lutheran World Federation (Central Eastern Europe Region).[3]
^[1] Archived 2022-01-20 at the Wayback Machine Census 2021
^"ERC:: Ekumenická rada cirkví v SR". www.ekumena.sk. Archived from the original on 2022-05-28. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
^"Member Churches". The Lutheran World Federation. 2013-05-19. Archived from the original on 2020-12-14. Retrieved 2021-10-20.
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