Search results
Fifty years would pass before the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church, successor of the Lübeck Lutheran church body, would initiate court proceedings to clear Stellbrink's name and admit their shame at how this noble martyr had been treated. In November 1993, the German courts officially overturned the guilty verdict against him.
The Lutheran Church of China (LCC; Chinese: 中華信義會; pinyin: Zhōnghuá Xìnyì Huì; Wade–Giles: Chung 1-hua 2 Hsin 4-i 4-hui 4) was a Lutheran church body in China from 1920 to 1951. It was established as a result of the consultations between the various Lutheran missionary bodies in China that was initiated during the China ...
The North American Lutheran Church ( NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Christian Scriptures (the Bible ), in keeping with the historic Lutheran ...
The new name replaced the prior Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Lübeckian State, accounting for Lübeck's statehood being abolished by the Greater Hamburg Act in 1937. On 1 January 1977 the Lübeck church body merged into the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. 1934 2012 Mecklenburg Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg
The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church was founded in 1977 by the merger of four former state churches: the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche Eutin), which had been split off from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg and represented the former Prince-Bishopric of Lübeck.
The cathedral is now one of the three Lutheran churches of the North Elbian Evangelical Church. Since 2001 the bishop has been Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter . The congregation is closely connected with the musical life of the city.
2010: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland – Irja Askola; 2011: North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church – Kirsten Fehrs; 2011: Evangelical Church of Westphalia – Annette Kurschus, titled praeses; 2012: Church of Iceland (Lutheran) – Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir; 2012: Anglican Church of Southern Africa – Ellinah Wamukoya
