Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa information
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Lutheranism
Polity
Episcopal
Primate
The Rt. Rev Bishop Myaka
Associations
Lutheran World Federation, World Council of Churches, South African Council of Churches, All Africa Conference of Churches
Region
South Africa, Eswatini, Botswana, Lesotho
Origin
1975
Congregations
2,300 churches[1]
Members
589,582 members[1]
Official website
http://www.elcsa.org.za/home.html
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa is a Lutheran church in South Africa. The church has 580,000 baptized members[2] in seven dioceses in South Africa, Botswana, and Eswatini, and is (by a wide margin) the largest Lutheran church in the southern African region. It is a member of the Botswana Council of Churches.
The ELCSA was constituted from older churches in 1975, and became a member of the Lutheran World Federation in 1976. The presiding bishop's office is currently held by The Rt Rev Bishop Myaka of the South Eastern Diocese (KwaZulu-Natal Region).
^ ab"World Council of Churches". oikoumene.org. World Council of Churches. Archived from the original on 19 December 2016. Retrieved 23 January 2017.
^LWF Statistics 2009 Archived August 21, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
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