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and the Lutheran Communion in Southern Africa in 1997. As of 2003, it had 31 congregations (19 in the Cunene Province and 12 in other provinces), with approximately 25,000 baptized members. By 2009, the church had grown to 40,000 members, and as of 2016, it had 49,500 members. The church is mostly

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in 1917, the Lutheran church in Angola was repressed by the Roman Catholic Portuguese authorities. In 1956, Lutheranism was reestablished in Angola, and in 1991, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Angola was organized as an independent church body. In 1997, a smaller group of conservative Lutheran

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In 1956, the first permanent Lutheran congregation was established in Angola since the departure of the Rhenish missionaries in 1915. Seven years later, a second congregation was established. Over the next several decades, more congregations were established under the auspices of the

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or renounced Christianity entirely. Indigenous Lutheran missionaries from Namibia returned to Angola beginning in 1933, but they were largely driven out by the Roman Catholic Portuguese officials.

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missionaries helped to organize a second Angolan Lutheran church: the Confessional Lutheran Church in Angola.

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people in northern Namibia and southern Angola. The latter group established mission plants in

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Hayes, Patricia (March 1993). "Order out of Chaos: Mandume Ya Ndemufayo and Oral History".

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in the late 1800s, when Finnish missionaries began working in northern

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Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia

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in July 1870. Two decades later, German missionaries from the

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German Speaking Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in Bolivia

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Gossner Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chotanagpur and Assam

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Southern Africa (Cape Church)

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Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Central African Republic

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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Slovenia

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and southern Angola. Following the Portuguese defeat of

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Evangelical Church of the Lutheran Confession in Brazil

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Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Poland

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Lutheran Church of Belgium: Arlon and Christian Mission

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Protestant Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land

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Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan and the Holy Land

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