The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's own summary of congregational statistics as of December 31, 1988, its first full year following the January 1988 merger, giving national end-of-year baptized membership of 5,288,471 alongside a comparison to the prior year's combined predecessor-church total, and synod-by-synod breakdowns across every ELCA region.
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The ELCA's own official congregational statistics summary for its first full year of existence after the January 1, 1988 merger of the Lutheran Church in America, the American Lutheran Church, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, downloaded from cdn.elca.org and read in full: a primary institutional count carrying the national end-of-year total alongside every constituent synod's figures. Citation
PublisherEvangelical Lutheran Church in America
Publication Year1989
URLhttps://cdn.elca.org/cdn/wp-content/uploads/Summary_of_Congregational_Statistics_as_of_12-31-1988.pdf
Source TypeOfficial statistical return
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Source Summary of Congregational Statistics as of 12-31-1988
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