Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania

The main Evangelical-Lutheran church in Cluj-Napoca

The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania (Romanian: Biserica Evanghelică-Luterană din România; Hungarian: Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház; German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Rumänien) is a Lutheran denomination in Romania.^[1] Many active congregations were founded over 450 years ago,^[2] and today the Church has 27,540 members.^[3] It is primarily a Hungarian-speaking denomination, with one diocese for Slovak-speaking parishes.^[4]

This church is not to be confused with the mainly Saxon, German-speaking Evangelical Church of the Augustan Confession.

References

↑ J. Gordon Melton; Martin Baumann (21 September 2010). Religions of the World, Second Edition: A Comprehensive Encyclopedia of Beliefs and Practices. ABC-CLIO. p. 1055. ISBN 978-1-59884-204-3. Retrieved 5 February 2013.
↑ "Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Romania". World Council of Churches. Retrieved 7 October 2014.
↑ The Lutheran World Federation – 2013 Membership Figures Lutheran World
↑ "Cimtár". Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház (in Hungarian). Retrieved 29 August 2016.

External links

Official website (Hungarian) (German) (English)

Principal religions of Romania

State-recognised	Armenian Apostolic Church Baptist Union of Romania Convention of the Hungarian Baptist Churches Christian Evangelical Church Evangelical Church Evangelical Church of Augustan Confession Evangelical Lutheran Church Islam Jehovah's Witnesses Association of Romania Judaism Lipovan Orthodox Old-Rite Church Pentecostal Union of Romania Reformed Church Roman Catholic Church Armenian Catholic Vicariate Romanian Church United with Rome, Greek Catholic Romanian Orthodox Church Ukrainian Orthodox Vicariate Romanian Union Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Serbian Orthodox Diocese of Timișoara Unitarian Church of Transylvania

Not state-recognised	Hinduism Inochentism MISA Old Calendar Orthodox Church Zalmoxianism

Others	Irreligion in Romania

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