Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference ( KELC ) is an international community theologically conservative Lutheran churches.
It has 24 members, representing approximately 500,000 believers, the smallest of the three Lutheran organizations that are active worldwide. The KELC was founded in 1993 with 13 Lutheran churches and is now grown to 24 members. Finally, it came in 2011 to include new churches in the conference. In the German -speaking part of her, the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (about 1,300 church members ). The largest member church KELC is the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ) from the United States (about 385,000 church members ). Currently, the WELS Pastor Daniel Kölpin held the office of President of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference.
It accepts as members only Lutheran churches, which recognize the basics of the conference and are not in communion with churches whose doctrine or practice of the Lutheran Confessions, as it understands the conference vary. This applies, for example, the altar fellowship.
Member churches and their range
- Bulgarian Lutheran Church (Bulgaria)
- The Lutheran Church of Cameroon (Cameroon)
- Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Church (Finland )
- Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Church (Mexico)
- Evangelical Lutheran Confessional Church (Puerto Rico)
- Evangelical Lutheran Free Church ( Germany and Austria )
- Evangelical Lutheran Church - "Unity " (Russia)
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Australia (Australia)
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod (Peru )
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod (USA and other countries)
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (USA and other countries)
- Canaan Church in eastern Seoul ( South Korea)
- Lutheran Church of All Saints Nigeria ( Nigeria)
- Lutheran Confessional Church (Latvia )
- Lutheran Confessional Church (Norway )
- Lutheran Confessional Church (Sweden)
- Lutheran Christ the King Church Nigeria ( Nigeria)
- Lutheran Evangelical Christian Church ( Japan)
- Lutheran Church (Indonesia)
- Lutheran Church of Portugal (Portugal )
- Lutheran Church of Central Africa - Malawi Synod (Malawi )
- Lutheran Church of Central Africa - Zambia Conference ( Zambia)
- Czech Evangelical Lutheran Church (Czech Republic)
- Ukrainian Lutheran Church (Ukraine )