Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2022, it has approximately 2.9 million baptized members in 8,640 congregations. In 2015, Pew Research estimated that 1.4 percent of the U.S. population self-identifies with the ELCA. It is the seventh-largest Christian denomination by reported membership and the large
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Largest Lutheran denomination in the United States
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America
date created:
2003-06-17T21:19:54Z
date modified:
2024-09-07T21:57:47Z
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