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The Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil (Igreja Evangélica de Confissão Luterana no Brasil) is a
Lutheran 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 ...
denomination in
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
. It is a member of the
Lutheran World Federation The Lutheran World Federation (LWF; ) is a global Communion (religion), communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish city of L ...
, which it joined in 1952. It is a member of the Latin American Council of Churches, the National Council of Christian Churches and the
World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, most jurisdictions of the Eastern Orthodo ...
. The denomination has 1.02 million adherents and 634,286 registered members. The church ordains women as ministers. In 2011, the denomination released a pastoral letter accepting the Supreme Court's decision to allow same-sex civil marriage, although religious same-sex marriages are not allowed in the denomination, neither does it ordain clergy who are living in same-sex unions.


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Lutheran World Federation listing
Brazil Brazil, officially the Federative Republic of Brazil, is the largest country in South America. It is the world's List of countries and dependencies by area, fifth-largest country by area and the List of countries and dependencies by population ...
Lutheranism in South America Lutheran World Federation members Affirming Christian denominations in South America {{Lutheran-denomination-stub