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The following list contains the top 15 Lutheran church bodies in North America listed in decending order according to size of membership. The size ranges from ELCA's 10,448 congregations to Lutheran Evangelical Protestant's 44 congregations. There are many more smaller Lutheran bodies that will be added to the list later.

  • ELCA - Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
  • LCMS - The Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
  • WELS - Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
  • ELCIC - Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada
  • LCC - Lutheran Church - Canada
  • AFLC - Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
  • Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (many joing from ELCA)
  • NALC - North American Lutheran Church - grew from CORE (newly established)
  • CLBA - Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
  • ELS - Evangelical Lutheran Synod
  • CoLC - Church of the Lutheran Confession
  • TAALC - The American Association of Lutheran Churches
  • Estonian Ev Lutheran Church Abroad
  • Association of Independant Ev Lutheran Churches
  • ALCA - Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
  • The Lutheran Ev Protestant Church

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