Protes'tant Conference | |
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Classification | Lutheran |
Orientation | Confessional Lutheran |
Polity | Congregational |
Region | United States |
Origin | 1927 Wisconsin |
Separated from | Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod |
Congregations | 6 |
Members | approx. 1,000 baptized[1] |
Official website | protestantconference |
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The Protes'tant Conference is a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers in the United States. It was organized in 1927 by former members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) who had been suspended following an intrasynodical controversy. At its height, the Protes'tant Conference comprised twenty-two local congregations, but it had declined to just six by the early 2000s.
It is a conservative, confessional Lutheran Christian group with German immigrant roots. It published the periodical Faith-Life as a conference, and operates the Protes'tant Conference website. It does not consider itself as a denomination or a church body, but a loose association of churchworkers and independent congregations.