Ukrainian Lutheran Church

Ukrainian Lutheran Church
Ukrainian Lutheran Church
	Seal of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church
Type	Eastern Protestant
Classification	Eastern Lutheran
Orientation	Confessional Lutheran
Scripture	Bible
Polity	Modified episcopal polity with some powers reserved to the congregation as in congregationalism
Associations	Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference
Region	Ukraine
Liturgy	Byzantine Rite
Origin	1933 ; Kyiv, Ukraine
Congregations	about 25
Members	2,500
Official website	ukrlc.org

The Ukrainian Lutheran Church (ULC; Ukrainian: Українська Лютеранська Церква, romanized: Ukrayins'ka Lyuterans'ka Tserkva), formerly called the Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession, is a Byzantine Rite Lutheran Church based in Ukraine.^[2] The Eastern Christian denomination consists of 25 congregations within Ukraine, serving over 2,500 members and runs Saint Sophia Ukrainian Lutheran Theological Seminary in Ternopil in Western Ukraine.

The ULC is a member of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC), a worldwide organization of confessional Lutheran church bodies of the same beliefs.^[3]

^ Bebis, Vassilios (30 March 2013). "The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, used by the Ukrainian Lutheran Church, and its missing elements". Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Retrieved 18 September 2018. A revised Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is also celebrated in Ukraine by members of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. This Church was organized originally in 1926 in the "Galicia" region of Ukraine, which was at that time under the government of Poland. The liturgical rites used by the Ukrainian Lutherans reflected their Byzantine tradition. They did not use a Lutheran revision of the Latin Mass in their services, but instead they used a Lutheran revision of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. At its height, before the Second World War, the UECAC had numbered over 10,000 members. But the UECAC was suppressed by the Communists in 1939, and after the war it ceased to exist at the institutional level on the territory of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession was reorganized on the territory of Ukraine in 1994, as the Ukrainian Lutheran Church.
^ Hämmerli, Maria; Mayer, Jean-François (23 May 2016). Orthodox Identities in Western Europe: Migration, Settlement and Innovation. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 9781317084914.
^ "Member Churches". Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference. Retrieved January 12, 2018.

[Bebis2013-1] Bebis, Vassilios (30 March 2013). "The Divine Liturgy of Saint John Chrysostom, used by the Ukrainian Lutheran Church, and its missing elements". Eastern Orthodox Metropolitanate of Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Retrieved 18 September 2018. A revised Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom is also celebrated in Ukraine by members of the Ukrainian Lutheran Church. This Church was organized originally in 1926 in the "Galicia" region of Ukraine, which was at that time under the government of Poland. The liturgical rites used by the Ukrainian Lutherans reflected their Byzantine tradition. They did not use a Lutheran revision of the Latin Mass in their services, but instead they used a Lutheran revision of the Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom. At its height, before the Second World War, the UECAC had numbered over 10,000 members. But the UECAC was suppressed by the Communists in 1939, and after the war it ceased to exist at the institutional level on the territory of Ukraine. The Ukrainian Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession was reorganized on the territory of Ukraine in 1994, as the Ukrainian Lutheran Church.

[HämmerliMayer2016-2] Hämmerli, Maria; Mayer, Jean-François (23 May 2016). Orthodox Identities in Western Europe: Migration, Settlement and Innovation. Routledge. p. 13. ISBN 9781317084914.

[CELC-3] "Member Churches". Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference. Retrieved January 12, 2018.

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