Ukrainian Lutheran Church
The Ukrainian Lutheran Church ( Ukrainian Українська Лютервнська Церква ) is a small Protestant church in Ukraine .
Structures
The Ukrainian Lutheran Church consists of 31 parishes, which are structured in three dioceses and have around 2,500 members. 25 pastors are active in it. There are larger municipalities in Kiev , Ternopil , Kremenets and other cities.
The ULK is a member of the Council of Evangelical Protestant Churches of Ukraine and the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference .
It maintains the Sophienseminar in Ternopil as a training facility .
Theological orientation
The Ukrainian Lutheran Church is strongly oriented towards Lutheran Orthodoxy. It largely rejects the liberal reforms of the 19th and 20th centuries.
The liturgy follows the Byzantine rite in a revised form in the Ukrainian language . An ordination of women is not possible. The Church uses the Julian calendar .
history
Since the 1530s there have been individual Lutherans in what is now Ukrainian areas. German Lutheran congregations had existed since the 18th century.
In 1926 the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession was founded in the Ukrainian populated areas of the Second Polish Republic. In 1939 it was dissolved after the Soviet Union occupied these areas.
In 1996 the Ukrainian Lutheran Church was founded, which sees itself as the successor to the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession .
Web links
- Українська Лютеранська Церква Homepage (Ukrainian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Дані Державного департаменту у справах національностей та релігій (Information from the State Department for Nationalities and Religious Issues) 2016 (Ukrainian)
- ↑ Reinhard Thöle, Vasyl Rudeyko: church service book. The Lutheran Worship Service in the Byzantine-Slavic Tradition: A German-language study edition of the Worship Regulations of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. In: Yearbook for Liturgy and Hymnology. Volume 43. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2004, pp. 49–113.