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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada came into being in 1986 through the merger of two predecessor bodies the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (started in 1966 by Canadian congregations of the American Lutheran Church ) and three Synod s of the Lutheran Church In America , called the '''Canada Section'''. In 1988 these two US church bodies ceased to exist as they merged into the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America , the ELCIC's sister denomination in the United States. The Church derives its teachings from the Bible and confess the three ecumenical creeds of the Christian Church--that is, the Apostle's Creed , the Nicene Creed and the Athanasian Creed . The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is in full communion with the Anglican Church Of Canada under the Waterloo Declaration . The Waterloo Lutheran Seminary and Lutheran Theological Seminary, Saskatoon are the seminaries owned by the church. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada is composed of five synods (similar to a Diocese in Anglican Polity ). The presiding officer and chief pastor of each synod is a bishop.
This structure is identical to the synod structure of the ELCA, except that the Canadian synods cover entire provinces, whereas some ELCA synods cover the whole or part of a metro area and some cover several states. Like the ELCA a Presiding Bishop serves as its head, but in the ELCIC, this bishop is known as the "National Bishop." The current National Bishop is the Rev. Raymond L. Schultz. EXTERNAL LINK |
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