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Lutheran Facts

(Facts you always wanted to know but were afraid to ask)
Did you know that there are 21 Lutheran synods in the United States and Canada? Some statistics are shown below. The list of synods/associations, Lutheran Church Bodies in North America, was compiled by the Office of Church Relations, Valparaiso University (2002).

Lutheran Synod # Congregations # Congregants # Congregations in DC Area # Congregants in DC Area # Colleges, Universities, & Seminaries
Apostolic Lutheran Church of America - ALCA N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Association of Free Lutheran Churches - AFLC N.A. N.A. 1 N.A. N.A.
Canadian Association of Lutheran Congregations - CALC N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Conservative Lutheran Association - CLS 6 862 N.A. N.A. N.A.
Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America - CLBA 125 8,500 0 0 0
Concordia Lutheran Conference - CLC 75 8,671 1 27 1
Church of the Lutheran Confession - CoLC N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church _EELC 63 (world) 15,700 N.A. N.A. N.A.
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - ELCA 11,023 5.2M 75 40,000 36
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada _ ELCIC N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod - ELS N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Fellowship of Lutheran Congregations - FLC N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
International Lutheran Fellowship - ILF N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - LELCA N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Lutheran Church Missouri Synod - LCMS 6,220 2.6M 40 20,000 N.A.
Lutheran Churches of the Reformation - LCR N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
The Lutheran Confessional Synod - LCS N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
Lutheran Church in Canada - LCC 325 N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.
The Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA- LMS-USA 21 2,100 0 0 0
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod - WELS 1,295 316,386 14 N.A. N.A.
World Confessional Lutheran Association - WCLA N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A. N.A.

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