Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference

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The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (KELC; English: Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference , CELC) is an international community theologically conservative Lutheran churches based in Waukesha , Wisconsin.

With 24 members who represent around 500,000 believers, it is the smallest of the three Lutheran organizations that are active worldwide. The KELK was founded in 1993 with 13 Lutheran churches and has now grown to 24 members. Most recently, new churches were accepted into the conference in 2011. In the German-speaking area , the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (approx. 1,300 church members) belongs to it . The largest member church of the KELK is the Evangelical Lutheran Wisconsin Synod (WELS) from the United States (approx. 385,000 church members). The WELS Pastor Daniel Koelpin is currently the President of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference.

It only accepts Lutheran churches as members that recognize the principles of the conference and that are not in fellowship with churches whose teaching or practice deviate from the Lutheran creed as understood by the conference. This concerns z. B. the communion fellowship .

In 2017, the full CELC conference took place in Germany again after a long break. The small town of Grimma in Saxony was chosen as the conference venue : from June 29 to July 2, 2017, the participants used the St. Augustin high school, which was built there in 1550, as a conference venue and hostel - they celebrated their final service in the neighboring monastery church of Grimma .

Member churches and their area of ​​circulation

  • 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)
  • Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Wisconsin (USA and other countries)
  • Canaan Church in Eastern Seoul (South Korea)
  • All Saints Lutheran Church Nigeria (Nigeria)
  • Lutheran Confessional Church (Latvia)
  • Lutheran Confessional Church (Norway)
  • Lutheran Confessional Church (Sweden)
  • Christ the King Lutheran Church of 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)

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  1. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ed.): Lutherische Gemeindebriefe. Community journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church ; Volume 27, No. 3, March 2011, p. 8.
  2. ↑ Excerpt from the annual statistical report of WELS (English).
  3. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ed.): Lutherische Gemeindebriefe. Community journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church ; Volume 27, No. 7, July 2011, p. 4.
  4. ↑ Constitution of the KELK on its website (English), Article IV. ( Memento from January 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ http://elfk.de/html/celc/?mdocs-file=633
  6. ↑ http://www.lvz.de/Region/Grimma/Grimma-ist-Gastgeber-fuer-Belösungenlutheraner-aus-der-ganzen-Welt
  7. ↑ http://elfk.de/html/celc/celc_2017/
  8. ↑ Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (ed.): Lutherische Gemeindebriefe. Community journal of the Evangelical Lutheran Free Church ; Volume 27, No. 7, July 2011, p. 4: The Canaan Church has the status of an associate member without voting rights.
  9. ↑ The Lutheran Church of Portugal has the status of associate member without voting rights.