Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg (
Protestant
denomination in this area.
In May 2012, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg merged with the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church and Pomeranian Evangelical Church into the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.[1]
History
The Lutheran church in Mecklenburg dates to the
John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg gained a majority of deputies of the united Landtag of the separate duchies of Mecklenburg (Mecklenburg-Güstrow, -Schwerin and -Strelitz
) to officially introduce the Lutheran confession as the state religion in the duchies. Afterwards the dukes of the branch duchies served as supreme governors of the separate Lutheran churches in the duchies, which later merged to two duchies, Schwerin and Strelitz.
When the grand dukes of Mecklenburg-Schwerin and Mecklenburg-Strelitz abdicated in 1918, the Lutheran
state churches became independent. They adopted new church orders
providing for a office called state bishop. In 1934, the regional churches merged into the Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg.
The ELLM was a full member of the
Reformation
.
The ELLM merged with the Pomeranian Evangelical Church and the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany in May 2012.
State bishops
External links
- http://www.ellm.de Archived 2001-10-02 at the Wayback Machine Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg
- Protestant Church in Germany
References
- ^ "Nordkirche - nordkirche.de". www.nordkirche.de.
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