Evangelical Lutheran Church

Evangelical Lutheran Church can refer to many different Lutheran churches in the world. Among them are the following:

North America

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States
• Evangelical Lutheran Church (1917), merged into the American Lutheran Church (a predecessor to the ELCA) in 1960
• Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland), a congregation
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

Germany

Lutheran regional churches of the Evangelical Church in Germany:

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick
• Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
• Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg-Lippe
• Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia, joined a merger in 2009 to form the Evangelical Church in Central Germany, a United church Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany, formed in 2012 by a merger of the following Lutheran churches:
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg
• North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Other German Lutheran churches:

• Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
• Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church

Europe

• Church of Denmark, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of England
• Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Church of the Faroe Islands
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in France
• Evangelical Lutheran Church – Synod of France and Belgium
• Church of Iceland, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (present also outside Europe)
• Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Moldova
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands
• Church of Norway, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Russia and Other States
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Augsburg Confession, Kisač, Serbia
• Church of Sweden, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden

South America

• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Argentina
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Colombia
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Ecuador
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Guyana
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Suriname
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Venezuela

Elsewhere

• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Australia, merged to form the Lutheran Church of Australia
• United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia, merged to form the Lutheran Church of Australia
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ghana
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hong Kong
• Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church in Andhra Pradesh, India
• Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tamil Nadu, India
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land
• Evangelical Lutheran Church of Papua New Guinea
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa
• Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

Global communions

• Lutheran World Federation
• International Lutheran Council
• Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
• Global Confessional and Missional Lutheran Forum

See also

• Evangelisch-lutherische Kirche (disambiguation)
• Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession (disambiguation)
• List of Lutheran churches
• List of Lutheran denominations