The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thailand 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 reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Catholic Church launched th ...

denomination located in

Thailand Thailand ( ), historically known as Siam () and officially the Kingdom of Thailand, is a country in Southeast Asia, located at the centre of the Indochinese Peninsula, spanning , with a population of almost 70 million. The country is bo ...

. It is a member of the

Lutheran World Federation The Lutheran World Federation (LWF; german: Lutherischer Weltbund) is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran denominations headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish ...

, which it joined in 1994. In 2018, this denomination saw its first women ordained into ministry, namely Jongkolnee Sampachanyanon Sim and Somporn Kulachote. It has approximately 5,000 members.

References

External links

Lutheran World Federation listing
Lutheran denominations Lutheran World Federation members Evangelical denominations in Asia Lutheranism in Thailand {{Lutheranism-stub