The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick (
German: Evangelisch-Lutherische Landeskirche in Braunschweig) is a
Lutheran church in the
German states of
Lower Saxony and
Saxony-Anhalt.
The Church of Brunswick originated as the state church (German: Landeskirche) of the
Principality of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, where the
Protestant Reformation was ultimately introduced in 1568. The ruling duke acted as bishop of the church. In 1704, Wolfenbüttel introduced religious tolerance, so that parishes not belonging to the state church could be founded. After the monarchy was abolished in 1918, the Church of Brunswick became an independent organization, but retained — like all
former state churches — certain privileges. In 1922 the Brunswickian church counted 464,000 parishioners.[3]
The
Evangelical-Lutheran Mission in Lower Saxony (ELM), which was founded in 1977 as a common organisation for the Evangelical Lutheran State Churches of Brunswick,
Hanover and
Schaumburg-Lippe, looks after relationships with the overseas partner churches of the Brunswick State Church. The headquarters of the ELM is in
Hermannsburg in the Südheide. Since 2003 Pastor Martina Helmer-Pham Xuan has been the director of the mission.
Notes
^"Statistik". Evangelisch-lutherische Landeskirche in Braunschweig.
Archived from the original on June 9, 2022. Retrieved January 6, 2022.
^"Link Diocese". The Diocese of Blackburn.
Archived from the original on June 29, 2018. Retrieved June 29, 2018.
^Sebastian Müller-Rolli in collaboration with Reiner Anselm, Evangelische Schulpolitik in Deutschland 1918–1958: Dokumente und Darstellung, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1999, (=Eine Veröffentlichung des Comenius-Instituts Münster), p. 30.
ISBN3-525-61362-8.