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Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church
The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in south India, which was established in 1919 and has approximately 500,000 members. Its headquarters is in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. It is one of the prominent mainline Lutheran churches in Tamil Nadu. On 14 January 1919, the Tamil congregation of different German, Danish, and Swedish Lutheran missions joined together to form the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church (TELC). In March 1921, the constitution of the TELC was amended to include the structure of episcopacy. In 1921, a Swedish missionary, Ernst Heuman, was ordained as the first bishop of the TELC. The bishop of TELC holds the title Bishop of Tranquebar. In 1956, R B Manickam became the first Indian to be ordained as the bishop of TELC. The bishops have the title ''Bishop of Tranquebar''. It belongs to the Lutheran World Federation. The Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Mission and Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden () is an Evangelical Lutheran national ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutheran World Federation Members
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 1517. The Lutheran Churches adhere to the Bible and the Ecumenical Creeds, with Lutheran doctrine being explicated in the Book of Concord. Lutherans hold themselves to be in continuity with the apostolic church and affirm the writings of the Church Fathers and the first four ecumenical councils. The schism between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, which was formalized in the Diet of Worms, Edict of Worms of 1521, centered around two points: the proper source of s:Augsburg Confession#Article XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power., authority in the church, often called the formal principle of the Reformation, and the doctrine of s:Augsburg Confession#Article IV: Of Justification., justification, the material principle of Luther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1919 Establishments In British India
Events January * January 1 ** The Czechoslovak Legions occupy much of the self-proclaimed "free city" of Pressburg (later Bratislava), enforcing its incorporation into the new republic of Czechoslovakia. ** HMY ''Iolaire'' sinks off the coast of the Hebrides; 201 people, mostly servicemen returning home to Lewis and Harris, are killed. * January 2– 22 – Russian Civil War: The Red Army's Caspian-Caucasian Front begins the Northern Caucasus Operation against the White Army, but fails to make progress. * January 3 – The Faisal–Weizmann Agreement is signed by Emir Faisal (representing the Arab Kingdom of Hejaz) and Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann, for Arab–Jewish cooperation in the development of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, and an Arab nation in a large part of the Middle East. * January 5 – In Germany: ** Spartacist uprising in Berlin: The Marxist Spartacus League, with the newly formed Communist Party of Germany and the Independent Social Democ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christian Organizations Established In 1919
A Christian () is a person who follows or adheres to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. Christians form the largest religious community in the world. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title (), a translation of the Biblical Hebrew term ''mashiach'' () (usually rendered as ''messiah'' in English). While there are diverse interpretations of Christianity which sometimes conflict, they are united in believing that Jesus has a unique significance. The term ''Christian'' used as an adjective is descriptive of anything associated with Christianity or Christian churches, or in a proverbial sense "all that is noble, and good, and Christ-like." According to a 2011 Pew Research Center survey, there were 2.3 billion Christians around the world, up from about 600 million in 1910. Today, about 37% of all Christians live in the Americas, about 26% live in Europe, 24% live in sub-Saharan Africa, ab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutheranism In India
Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that emerged under the work of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German friar and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church launched the Reformation in 1517. The Lutheran Churches adhere to the Bible and the Ecumenical Creeds, with Lutheran doctrine being explicated in the Book of Concord. Lutherans hold themselves to be in continuity with the apostolic church and affirm the writings of the Church Fathers and the first four ecumenical councils. The schism between Roman Catholicism and Lutheranism, which was formalized in the Diet of Worms, Edict of Worms of 1521, centered around two points: the proper source of s:Augsburg Confession#Article XXVIII: Of Ecclesiastical Power., authority in the church, often called the formal principle of the Reformation, and the doctrine of s:Augsburg Confession#Article IV: Of Justification., justification, the material principle of Luther ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christianity In Tamil Nadu
Christianity in the state of Tamil Nadu, India is the second largest religion in the state. According to tradition, Thomas the Apostle, St. Thomas, one of the twelve apostles, landed in Malabar Coast (modern day Kerala) in AD 52. In the colonial age many Portuguese, Dutch, British and Italian Christians came to Tamil Nadu. Priests accompanied them not only to minister the colonisers but also to spread the Christian faith among the non-Christians in Tamil Nadu. Currently, Christians are a minority community comprising 6% of the total population. Christians are mainly concentrated in the southern districts of Tamil Nadu - Kanyakumari district, Kanyakumari (47.7% of the population, 2011), Thoothukudi district, Thoothukudi (19%, 2011) and Tirunelveli district, Tirunelveli (15%, 2011). The Catholic Church—including the Latin Church, Syro-Malabar Church, and Syro-Malankara Catholic Church—the Church of South India, the Pentecostals, The Salvation Army Church, the Jacobite ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Jerusalem Church, Tranquebar
The New Jerusalem Church () was built in 1718 by the Royal Danish missionary Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg in the coastal town of Tranquebar, India, which was at that time a Danish India colony. The church is located on King Street, and church services are conducted every Sunday. The church, along with other buildings of the Tranquebar Mission, was damaged during the tsunami of 2004, and were renovated at a cost of INR 7 million, and re-consecrated in 2006. History In 1620, the village of Tranquebar was acquired for the Danish Crown, by the Danish Admiral Ove Gjedde, by signing an agreement with the Raghunatha Nayak of the Tanjore Nayak Kingdom on behalf of the King of Denmark. Jerusalem Church, Tranquebar (1707) In 1707, Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg helped establish the Jerusalem Church at Tranquebar for the Lutheran congregation, as the existing Zion Church was reluctant to accept native worshippers. The Tamil converts also did not want to worship in the European Zion Church, as t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church New Jerusalem Church
Tamil may refer to: People, culture and language * Tamils, an ethno-linguistic group native to India, Sri Lanka, and some other parts of Asia **Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka ** Myanmar or Burmese Tamils, Tamil people of Indian origin settled in Burma/Myanmar primarily during the British period **Tamil Malaysians Tamil Malaysians, also known as Malaysian Tamilar, are people of full or partial Tamil descent who were born in or immigrated to Malaysia from Tamil Nadu, India and the Tamil regions of north-east Sri Lanka. The majority of 1.8–2 million people ..., Tamil people of Indian origin settled to Malaysia **Singapore Tamils, Tamil people of Indian origin settled in Singapore **Tamil diaspora, descendants of Tamil immigrants living outside of India and Sri Lanka * Tamil language, the native language of the Tamils * Tamiloid languages, Dravidian languages related to Tamil, spoken in India * Tamil script, the writing system of the Tamil language **Tamil (U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg Monument In Tranquebar, Tamil Nadu, South India
Bartholomäus is a masculine German given name, the German equivalent of Bartholomew. Notable people with this name include: * Bartholomäus Aich, 17th century South-German organist and composer * Bartholomäus Bernhardi of Feldkirchen (1487–1551), rector and a professor of physics and philosophy at the University of Wittenberg * Bartholomäus Brötzner (born 1957), Austrian wrestler * Bartholomäus Gesius (c. 1562–1613), German theologian, church musician, composer and hymn writer * Bartholomäus Herder (1774–1839), founder of the publishing firm Verlag Herder * Bartholomäus Hopfer (1628–1699), German painter * Bartholomäus Kalb (born 1949), German politician * Bartholomäus Keckermann (c. 1572–1608), German writer, Calvinist theologian and philosopher * Bartholomäus Khöll (1614–1664), imperial master stonemason * Bartholomäus Kilian (1630–1696), German engraver * Bartholomäus Metlinger (15th century), German physician * Bartholomäus Ringwaldt (1532� ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Johannes Sandegren
Johannes Teodor Hjalmar Sandegren (20 November 1883, Madurai, India – 15 November 1962, Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop active in India. Sandegren was born in South India as part of a large circle of siblings to a German– Swedish missionary family. His parents were Dr. Jacob Sandegren and Theodore Kremmer. His Swedish father had travelled to South India as a missionary, as early as 1869, and his parents met there. His mother was the daughter of a German missionary. Four of their sons became missionaries for the Church of Sweden in India. Johannes Sandegren was ordained in Västerås in 1906 and returned to India as a missionary in 1907. In 1915 he was back in Sweden, and became a licentiate in Sanskrit and religious history. In India, he was then active in Madurai. In 1927 he took the initiative to found TELC's theological college Gurukul, in Madras, where he became the director. In 1934 he became Bishop of Tranquebar in the Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Evangelical Lutheran Church In India
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches in India (UELCI) is a communion of twelve Lutheran Christian denominations in India. It has approximately four million members. It is a member of the World Council of Churches, Christian Conference of Asia, the National Council of Churches in India, the ACT Alliance and Lutheran World Federation. Members Church *Andhra Evangelical Lutheran Church * Arcot Lutheran Church * Evangelical Lutheran Church in Madhya Pradesh *Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Himalayan States *Good Samaritan Evangelical Lutheran Church *Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam *India Evangelical Lutheran Church *Jeypore Evangelical Lutheran Church *Northern Evangelical Lutheran Church *South Andhra Lutheran Church *Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church The Tamil Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Christian denomination in south India, which was established in 1919 and has approximately 500,000 members. Its headquarters is in Trichy, Tamil Nadu. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
