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 as Cape Church known. She is a member of the Lutheran World Federation and the South African Council of Churches . Their bishop is currently Gilbert Filter.
structure
The Cape Church is currently divided into two districts with a total of 22 parishes and has around 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 Brothers' Union 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 English and Afrikaans have largely replaced German today. 1893 recommended the Zellerfelder Superintendent Emil Petri at a visitation to the churches founded by the Lower Saxon emigrants connection to the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover . With the approval of the regional church, the congregations, which had been united in a synod since 1895, submitted to the supervision of the Hanover regional consistory. Pastors of the Cape Church were provided by the Hanover Regional Church. Resolutions of the synod had to be confirmed by the state consistory or the later state church office. In 1952, Regional Bishop Hanns Lilje went on a visitation trip to the South African congregations.
In 1961 the Kapkirche was separated from Hanover and made independent.
Hymn book
The Hanoverian edition of the Evangelical Church Hymn book was introduced in the Cape Church in 1994 .
Web links
- Homepage of the Cape Church
- ELKSA (chap.) More information about the Cape Church. Retrieved on September 17, 2011 (German).
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- ↑ 2010 World Lutheran Membership Details; Lutheran World Information 1/2011 ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive )