Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Cape Church)

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in South Africa (Cape) ( English Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, Cape Church ) is a Lutheran from several churches in South Africa and also known as the Cape Church. She is a member of the Lutheran World Federation and the South African Council of Churches. Your bishop is currently Nils Rohwer.

Structure

Currently, the Cape Church is divided into two districts with a total of 22 municipalities and has about 5,000 members (as of 2010 ). Other Lutheran churches in South Africa are the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Natal- Transvaal ), the Moravian Church in South Africa, the Free Evangelical Lutheran Synod in South Africa and the Lutheran Church in South Africa.

History

From its origins, the Cape Church is a German -speaking church, even if nowadays English and Afrikaans, the German who largely displaced. 1893 recommended the Zellerfelder Superintendent Emil Petri a visitation founded by the Lower Saxon emigrants communities with a connection to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover. Following approval from the State Church, the Synod since 1895 to a member municipalities the authority of the former into the Lutheran Consistory imputed. Pastors of the Cape Church were asked by the Hanoverian State Church. Resolutions of the Synod had to be confirmed by the consistory country or the later national church office. 1952 undertook Bishop Hanns Lilje a visitation trip to the South African communities.

In 1961 the Cape Church of Hanover was separated and independent.

Hymnbook

In the Cape Church the Hanover edition of the Evangelical Church hymnal was introduced in 1994.