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Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference | |
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Type | Association |
Classification | Protestant |
Orientation | Lutheran |
Scripture | Bible |
President | Thomas P. Nass |
Origin | 1993 |
Official website | www |
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The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) is an international fellowship of 34 Confessional Lutheran church bodies.
The CELC was founded in 1993 in Oberwesel, Germany with an initial thirteen church bodies. Plenary sessions are held every three years. To date there have been ten plenary meetings (1993, 1996, 1999, 2002, 2005, 2008, 2011, 2014, 2017, 2021), with regional meetings held in the intervening years.[1]
The CELC rejects the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification signed between the Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church.