The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCC) was a

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active in Canada from 1966 to 1985. Prior to gaining autonomy, its congregations comprised the Canada District of the

American Lutheran Church The American Lutheran Church (TALC) was a Christian Protestant denomination in the United States and Canada that existed from 1960 to 1987. Its headquarters were in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Upon its formation in 1960, The ALC designated Augsburg ...

. The first presiding officer of the ELCC was Karl Holfeld.http://esask.uregina.ca/entry/evangelical_lutheran_church_in_canada.html On January 1, 1986, the ELCC merged with the

Lutheran Church in America The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987. It was headquartered in New York City and its publishing house was Fortress Press. The LCA's immigrant heritage came mostly fr ...

- Canada Section, to form the

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC; french: Église évangélique luthérienne au Canada) is Canada's largest Lutheran denomination, with 95,000 baptized members in 519 congregations, with the second largest, the Lutheran Church–C ...

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