Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church

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The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church was one of the Lutheran church bodies that merged into the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) in 1962. It was defined more by its Finnish ethnic origin than by any specific theological strain. In 1962, the FELC had 25000 members in 79 congregations, and was the smallest of LCA's founding church bodies. The LCA was party to the merger that created the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1988.