The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania ( ro, Biserica Evanghelică-Luterană din România; hu, Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház; german: Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche in Rumänien) is a

Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

denomination in

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. Many active congregations were founded over 450 years ago, and today the Church has 27,540 members. It is primarily a Hungarian-speaking denomination, with one deanery for Slovak-speaking parishes. This church is not to be confused with the mainly Saxon,

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-speaking Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession.

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External links

Official website
Lutheranism in Romania Lutheran World Federation members {{Lutheran-stub