Lutheran Church in Great Britain

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Lutheran Church in Great Britain
Lutheran
PolityEpiscopal
BishopTor Berger Jørgensen
AssociationsLutheran World Federation
Lutheran Council of Great Britain
Porvoo Communion
RegionGreat Britain
Origin1961 (as the United Lutheran Synod)
Congregations11
Official websitehttp://www.lutheranchurch.co.uk/
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    The Lutheran Church in Great Britain (LCiGB) is a small

    Protestant Christian church in the United Kingdom. The LCiGB is a member church of the Lutheran World Federation and of The Lutheran Council of Great Britain, the umbrella organisation for several Lutheran churches in Great Britain, many of which are chaplaincies or congregations that are closely related to Lutheran churches in other 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,[1] led by a bishop and a council of lay members and clergy elected at its annual synod. Tor Berger Jørgensen, former bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland in the Church of Norway
    , was received as the fourth bishop of the LCiGB on 6 October 2019.

    History

    Interior of The Savoy Chapel

    The

    Reformed
    tradition in Protestantism. The first Lutherans living in Britain after the Reformation were therefore not local people, but largely foreign merchants.

    The first officially sanctioned Lutheran congregation, organised in 1669, received a

    Mansion House underground station. In addition, The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, a royal peculiar and thus not subject to a bishop's jurisdiction, hosted the German congregation of Westminster
    . It was granted royal permission to worship in the Savoy Chapel when it separated from Holy Trinity the Less. The new congregation's first pastor, Irenaeus Crusius (previously an associate at Holy Trinity the Less), dedicated the congregation on the 19th Sunday after Trinity 1694 as the Marienkirche or in English as the German Church of St Mary-le-Savoy. Both congregations still survive.

    In the English-speaking lineage, Holy Trinity the Less was succeeded by St Anne's Lutheran Church which worshipped at the Anglican church of St Anne and St Agnes from 1966 to 2013 in the City of London. The German-speaking congregation now meets in Cambridge.[2] St Anne's now worships at the Anglican church of St Mary-at-Hill, also located in the city.[3] The German Church of St Mary-le-Savoy now exists as part of the united German congregation of St Mary and St George.[4] The congregation now meets in the chapel within the International Lutheran Student Centre in Bloomsbury, London.[5]

    Dome of St Mary at Hill

    All Lutheran congregations in Britain were originally ethnic churches that worshipped in various national languages and most that remain still function on ethnic-linguistic lines. The LCiGB was founded as the English-speaking United Lutheran Synod in April 1961 by four congregations in London, High Wycombe, Corby, and Hothorpe Hall. These congregations were mainly founded by European immigrants, but now worshipped in English. In 1978, it changed its name to the Lutheran Church in Great Britain – United Synod. In 1988, the words 'United Synod' were dropped from its name. From 1961 to 2000, the LCiGB was led by a dean who had episcopal functions, but was not a consecrated bishop. In 2000, it adopted a fully episcopal polity when the Right Revd Walter Jagucki was consecrated as the first Bishop. In 2013, the LCiGB was accepted by the Presiding Bishops of the Porvoo Communion for full membership,[6] and it was admitted into the Communion when Bishop Martin Lind signed the Porvoo Declaration in September 2014.[7]

    Congregations

    There are 11 congregations in the LCiGB as well as three chaplaincies. Although the LCiGB originated as an English-speaking church, it now holds services in several languages. Services are conducted in English (in

    Leicester University
    (University of Leicester Chaplaincy).

    Bishops

    See also

    References

    1. ^ "LWF AFFIRMS HISTORIC STATEMENT ON EPISCOPAL MINISTRY". Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. Retrieved 8 September 2013.
    2. ^ "Welcome – Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche". german-church.org. Archived from the original on 7 September 2018. Retrieved 10 December 2016.
    3. ^ "St Anne's Lutheran Church – Welcome, Worship, and Witness to Jesus Christ".
    4. ^ Administrator. "St Marien with St Georg". german-church.org.
    5. ^ "International Lutheran Student Centre – Welcome Home". ilscentre.org.uk.
    6. ^ "Communiqué from the meeting of presiding bishops". The Porvoo Communion. 24 October 2014. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
    7. ^ Sjogreen, Jenny (19 September 2014). "Porvoo Communion grows as two Churches signed the Porvoo agreement". The Porvoo Communion. Retrieved 1 December 2014.
    8. ^ https://www.webcitation.org/6TWJqY9JW?url=http://www.lutheran.org.uk/Link27-Winter08-web.pdf [dead link]

    External links

    Parish websites