Lutheran Church Bodies in North America
If a church body’s name appears in black, this means that it does not have a formal fellowship relationship with other Lutheran church bodies in the United States or Canada. The names of church bodies that do have a formal fellowship relationship with each other appear in the same color (other than black).
International ecclesiastical affiliations are indicated as follows:
CELC: Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
ILC: International Lutheran Council
LWF: Lutheran World Federation
Alliance of Renewal Churches
American
Association of Lutheran Churches (ILC)
Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church
Apostolic Lutheran Church of
America
Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches
Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
Association of Independent Evangelical Lutheran Congregations
Augsburg Lutheran Churches
Augustana Orthodox and Evangelical Lutheran Synod
Auneslaiset (Laestadian/Apostolic Lutheran; not formally organized)
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
Church of the Lutheran Confession
Concordia Lutheran
Conference
Conservative Lutheran Association
Estonian Evangelical
Lutheran Church Abroad (LWF)
Evangelical Catholic
Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (LWF)
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - Eielsen Synod
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (LWF)
Evangelical Lutheran Conference and
Ministerium
Evangelical Lutheran Confessing Fellowship (within the ELCA, but not officially recognzed thereby)
Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America
Evangelical Lutheran Synod (CELC)
Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas (within the ELCA, but not officially recognzed thereby)
Fellowship of Confessing Lutheran Churches
Illinois Lutheran Conference
Independent Lutheran Congregations (not formally organized)
Independent Lutheran Diocese
International Lutheran Fellowship
Laestadian Lutheran Church
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia Abroad) (LWF)
Lithuanian Evangelical Lutheran Church in Diaspora (LWF)
Lutheran Church - Canada (ILC)
Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod (ILC)
Lutheran Churches of Calvary Grace
Lutheran Churches of the Common Confession (within the ELCA, but not officially recognzed thereby)
Lutheran Churches of the Reformation
Lutheran Conference of Confessional Fellowship
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for
Christ
Lutheran Evangelical Protestant Church
Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA
Lutheran Orthodox Church
Orthodox Lutheran Alliance
Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference
Protéstant Conference (Lutheran)
Reformation Lutheran Conference
United Lutheran Mission Association (not formally organized as a synod)
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (CELC)
Lutheran Resources Site
Pastor Zip’s US Lutheran Web Links
Valparaiso University - Lutheran Church Bodies in North America
Lutheran Church Bodies in Ukraine
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