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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
ClassificationProtestant
OrientationMainline Lutheran
TheologyModerate to Liberal
PolityModified episcopal polity
National BishopSusan Johnson
HeadquartersWinnipeg, Manitoba
Origin1986
Winnipeg, Manitoba
Merger of
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada
  • Lutheran Church in America, Canada Section
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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