Lutheran membership jumps by nearly two million

Notes: "Africa's Lutheran churches saw their total membership increase over the past year by nearly two million, boosting the total number of members of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) worldwide to more than 68.3 million". "The largest LWF church is the Church of Sweden, which remained nearly unchanged over the course of 2007, with a slight drop of 0.03 per cent to reach 6,893,901 members. Still, Germany remains the country with the largest overall Lutheran count at 12.63 million, but they belong to different churches, some of which are organized on a regional basis. According to recent LWF statistics, membership in the organization's 140 churches and other congregations in 78 countries worldwide rose by a total of 1.64 million reaching 68,322,229, an increase of 2.5 per cent over the previous year. In 2006, LWF member churches had some 66.7 million members worldwide, up from 66.2 million in 2005. Meanwhile, membership in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada remained relatively stable in 2007, falling by a mere 0.03 per cent to count 174,500".

Subjects: Lutheran World Federation - Statistics; Lutheran Church - Statistics; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada - Statistics