National Evangelical Lutheran Church
Finnish-American church body / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The National Evangelical Lutheran Church (NELC) was a Finnish-American Lutheran church body that was organized in 1898 in Rock Springs, Wyoming, as the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Church of America. It merged into the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in 1965.
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National Evangelical Lutheran Church | |
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Abbreviation | NELC |
Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Lutheran |
Theology | Confessional Lutheranism |
Polity | Congregational |
Region | Midwest, esp. Upper Peninsula of Michigan and northeastern Minnesota |
Origin | 1898 Rock Springs, Wyoming |
Merged into | Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (1964) |
Congregations | 53 (1962) |
Members | 11,142 (1962) |
Ministers | 35 (1962) |
Other name(s) | Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Church of America (1898–1946) |
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