The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (German: Nordelbische Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche) was a Protestant church in Northern Germany, which largely covered the area of the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg where it was the most important Christian denomination. It had 2.1 million members (as of 2006) in 595 parishes, constituting 46% of the population of its district.
In May 2012 the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church merged together with Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mecklenburg and Pomeranian Evangelical Church into Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany.
It was a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany, and the Lutheran World Federation (joined 1977)]. The church was also a member of the Community of Protestant Churches in Europe.
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