The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada came into being in 1986 through the merger of two predecessor bodies the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (started in 1966 by Canadian congregations of the American Lutheran Church) and three synods of the Lutheran Church in America, called the Canada Section. In 1988 these two US church bodies ceased to exist as they merged into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was a Christian Protestant denomination in the United States from 1960 to 1987. ... A synod (also known as a council) is a council of a church, usually a Christian church, convened to decide an issue of doctrine or administration. ... The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was a U.S. Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987. ... 1988 is a leap year starting on a Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America or ELCA is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. ...
The church derive their teachings from the Bible and confess the three ecumenical creeds of the Christian church. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is in full communion with the Anglican Church of Canada. The Anglican Church of Canada is the Canadian branch of the Anglican Communion. ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is composed of five synods.The presiding officer and chief pastor of each synod is a bishop.
ELCIC delegates attending the July 21-24 governing body meeting voted against the measure in a resolution that fell short of the two-thirds majority needed for it to pass.
The ELCIC also takes guidance from a 1970 statement by the former Lutheran Church of America on sex, marriage and the family, which refers to homosexuality as a departure from the norm.
The ELCIC is Canada's largest Luthern church, with approximately 182,000 members in 624 congregations throughout five regional synods.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) (French: Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 182,077 baptized members in 624 congregations.
The Church derives its teachings from the Bible and confess the three ecumenical creeds of the Christian Church--that is, the Apostle's Creed, the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed.
Like the ELCA a presiding bishop serves as its head, but in the ELCIC, this bishop is known as the "National Bishop." The current National Bishop is the Rev. Raymond L. Schultz.
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