Lutheran Church in Great Britain

Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Classification	Protestant
Orientation	Lutheranism
Polity	Episcopal
Associations	Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain Porvoo Communion Lutheran World Federation
Region	Great Britain
Origin	1961 (as the United Lutheran Synod)
Congregations	11
Official website	http://www.lutheranchurch.co.uk/

The Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB) is a relatively small church in the United Kingdom. The LCiGB is a member church of the Lutheran World Federation and of the Council of Lutheran Churches in Great Britain, the umbrella organization for Lutheran churches in Britain, many of which are chaplaincies or congregations which are closely related to churches in other countries, in particular the Nordic countries. The LCiGB is also a member of the Porvoo Communion of Anglican and Lutheran churches in Europe. It is, in common with many Lutheran Churches, led by a Bishop and a Council elected at its Annual Synod. The Right Revd Dr Martin Lind, former Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping in the Church of Sweden, was received as the third Bishop of LCiGB on 11 January 2014.

The English Reformation did not follow the Lutheran pattern, but was instead largely influenced by ideas stemming from the Reformation in Switzerland and its parallel in Strasbourg. It is well known that Henry VIII did not favour the Lutheran cause. However, there were some English adherents of Lutheranism. A group of theologians at the University of Cambridge, which met at the White Horse tavern from the mid-1520s and became known as 'Little Germany', was influential. Its members included Robert Barnes, Hugh Latimer, John Frith and Thomas Bilney. Archbishop Thomas Cranmer was initially influenced by Lutheran theology. He visited Andreas Osiander in Nuremberg in 1532. The First Prayer Book of Edward VI (1549) was arguably Lutheran in content. However, the Second Prayer Book of Edward VI (1552) was published along Swiss Reformed lines and the Church of England became part of the Reformed tradition in Protestantism. The first Lutherans living in Britain after the Reformation were therefore not local people, but largely foreign merchants.

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