Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany information
Group of churches in Germany
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany (Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Norddeutschland) is a Lutheran member church of the Protestant Church in Germany (Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, EKD).
The denomination was established on 27 May 2012 as a merger of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg, and the Pomeranian Evangelical Church.[1] It covers the combined area of all those former member churches, which are the federal states of Schleswig-Holstein, Hamburg and Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Nordkirche is the only Landeskirche in Germany which covers parts of both New states of Germany and West Germany. It is also called Nordkirche (North Church).
In 2016, Nordkirche had 1,704 ordained pastors and more than 84,000 volunteers, and by the end of 2020, they had 1,892,749 members.[2][3] At the end of 2022, this had gone down to 1,772,953 members, with 1,562 pastors.[4]
^"Member Churches: EKD - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany". World Council of Churches. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
^"Lutheran Church in Northern Germany lost 400,000 members". Christian Network Europe. June 3, 2022.
^Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland - Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2020 Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine EKD, November 2021
^"The North Church in Statistics and Figures". Official website, Statistics page. Retrieved November 28, 2023.
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