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A Evangelical Lutheran Church around Canada (ELCIC) (Eglise Evangelique Lutherienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 182,077 baptized members within 624 congregations. These are the member of the Lutheran World Federation, the Canadian Council of Churches, and the World Council of Churches.
A Evangelical Lutheran Church inside Canada inherit existence around 1986 through a merger of deuce predecessor bodies the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (began inside 1966 by Western congregations of the American Lutheran Church) and trio synods of the Lutheran Church in America, called a Canada Segment. Within 1988 these two U.s.a. church bodies ceased to survive when it merged into a Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
A church derive their teachings from either a Bible & confess a triplet ecumenical creeds of the Christian church. A Evangelical Lutheran Church inside Canada is fully communion by using a Anglican Church of Canada under the Waterloo Declaration.
the Evangelical Lutheran Church around Canada is composed of 5 synods (similar to a diocese in Anglican polity). A presiding officer & primary pastor of every synod occurs as bishop.
The British Columbia Synod
a Synod of Alberta & the Territories
The Saskatchewan Synod
The Manitoba/Northwestern Ontario Synod
The Eastern Synod
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