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The European Lutheran Conference (ELC) is an association of
Confessional Lutheran Confessional Lutheranism is a name used by Lutherans to designate those who believe in the doctrines taught in the '' Book of Concord'' of 1580 (the Lutheran confessional documents) in their entirety. Confessional Lutherans maintain that faithfuln ...
churches in Europe. The full members of the conference are in
altar and pulpit fellowship Altar and pulpit fellowship describes an ecumenical collaboration between two Christian organizations, and is a Lutheran term for full communion, or ''communio in sacris.'' ''Altar'' refers to the altar in Christian churches, which holds the sacram ...
with one another. The members of the ELC are also members of the
International Lutheran Council The International Lutheran Council (ILC) is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran denominations. Member bodies of the ILC hold "an unconditional commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word of God and to the ...
.


Member churches

The European Lutheran Conference includes the following Lutheran churches as full members: * Evangelical Lutheran Church in Belgium (ELKB) * Evangelical Lutheran Diocese in Norway (ELDiN) * Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Denmark (ELFKiDk) *
Evangelical Lutheran Church of England The Evangelical Lutheran Church of England (ELCE) is a confessional Lutheran synod in the United Kingdom. It has Wiktionary:congregation, congregations in England, Wales and Scotland. The ELCE's oldest congregations date back to 1896, and the E ...
(ELCE) * Evangelical Lutheran Church – Synod of France (EEL-SF) *
Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church The Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church (, abbreviated SELK) is a confessional Lutheran church body of Germany. It is a member of the European Lutheran Conference and of the International Lutheran Council (ILC) (of which the Lutheran Church ...
(SELK) in Germany * Portuguese Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELP) * Spanish Evangelical Lutheran Church (IELE)


Organization

The current officers are Chairman Klaus Pahlen of the SELK; Vice-chairman Leif Jensen of the ELFKiDk; and Secretary Claudio Flor of the ELCE. The 2018 Conference was in
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, England.


See also

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International Lutheran Council The International Lutheran Council (ILC) is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran denominations. Member bodies of the ILC hold "an unconditional commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word of God and to the ...
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List of Lutheran denominations Lutheranism, Lutheran denominations are Protestantism, Protestant church bodies that identify, to a greater or lesser extent, with the Theology of Martin Luther, theology of Martin Luther and with the writings contained in the Book of Concord. Mo ...


References

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