Lutheran Church in Ireland
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The Lutheran Church in Ireland (Irish: An Eaglais Liútarach in Éirinn, German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Irland) is a Lutheran church, operating across the island of Ireland.
The Lutheran Church in Ireland maintains a special relationship with the Evangelical Church in Germany and a majority of its members originally came from the German-speaking countries and regions in Europe. In January 2015, a non-stipendiary minister was ordained in Dublin by Frank Otfried July, the Landesbischof of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg.[1]
The mother parish is located in Dublin. Although the services are mostly conducted in German, on the last Sunday of each month it is held in English.[2] Services in German also take place in Belfast, Castlepollard, Cork, Galway, Killarney, Limerick, Sligo and Wexford.
In 2009, the Lutheran Church in Ireland had a baptised membership of 300.[3] In the Republic of Ireland's census, the number of people listing Lutheranism as their religion was 756 in 2002[4] and 5,329 in 2016.[5] In Northern Ireland the corresponding figures were 186 in 2001[6] and 294 in 2011.[7]
References[]
- ^ "Die Ordination von Martin Sauter". Gemeindeleben (in German). Lutheran Church in Ireland. 10 January 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2015.
- ^ Might there also be Gaelic services?
- ^ LWF Statistics 2009 Archived 2010-08-21 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "2002 Census Vol.9 Table 5" (PDF). Cork: Central Statistics Office. p. 23.
- ^ "2016 Census table E8009" (HTML). Cork: Central Statistics Office.
- ^ "2001 Census: Religion KS07c (NI)" (ODS). Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency .
- ^ "Census 2011: Religion (Full Detail) by Sex: DC2118NI" (ODS). Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency.
External links[]
- Lutheran Church in Ireland (in German and English)
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