Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
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| Presiding bishop | Elizabeth Eaton |
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| Headquarters location | Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| Congregations | 9,091 (2018) |
| Origin | Columbus |
| Ohio | |
| Members | 3,363,281 baptized members (2018) |
| Founded | January 1 |
| 1988 | |
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| ID | 1402306 |
About Evangelical Lutheran Church In America
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant Lutheran Church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2018, it has approximately 3. 4 million baptized members in 9,091 congregations.
