Lutheran Church - Canada
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| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | Confessional Lutheran |
| Theology | Lutheran |
| Polity | Congregationalist |
| Synodical President | Robert Bugbee |
| Associations | International Lutheran Council |
| Origin | 1988 |
| Congregations | 304 |
| Members | 60,291 |
| Ministers | 223 Pastors 97 Deacons |
| Publications | The Canadian Lutheran |
| Official website | www |
Coordinates: 49°52′48″N 97°17′0.4″W / 49.88000°N 97.283444°W
Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) is a confessional Lutheran denomination in Canada. It is the second largest Lutheran body in Canada after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). Together with the ELCIC and the Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations, it is one of only three all-Canadian Lutheran denominations. LCC was founded in 1988 when Canadian congregations of the St. Louis-based Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) formed an autonomous church body with a synodical office in Winnipeg, Manitoba. LCC has no substantial theological divisions from LCMS and continues to have cooperative and sharing arrangements.
Lutheranism in Canada dates back to Danish explorers in 1619 and German settlers in Nova Scotia in 1749, the latter encouraged to populate the territory by George II of Great Britain; a first church was raised in Halifax in 1752. As Canadian settlement spread west, Ontarian congregations followed in the late 1700s, Manitoban ones in the 1800s, and Albertan ones in the early 1900s. For two centuries Lutheran churches in Canada tended to be organized under shifting arrangements of sponsorship from various American synods and conferences until coalescing into LCMS in 1958 and ELCIC in 1967, and from 1958 to 1988 LCC existed as a federated group under the LCMS umbrella.
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