The Nationality Question in the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, 1918 – 1939.

* The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Lutheran Cathedral ( Toomkirik ) from which the name Toompea was originally derived, is now the seat of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church and has perhaps best retained a medieval look among the buildings of Toompea.

* Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

: Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad

: Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church

The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church ( Estonian: Eesti Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik ) is a Lutheran church in Estonia.

The Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad is the Most Rev.

At services on December 2, 2007, the first Sunday of Advent, St. Jacob's Church ( Estonian: Jakobi kogudus, literally St. Jacob's congregation ), the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church ( EELK ), celebrated its 75th anniversary.

The church belongs to the Union of Free Evangelical and Baptist Churches of Estonia ( Estonian: Eesti Evangeeliumi Kristlaste ja Baptistide Koguduste Liitu ).

St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Church is an Evangelical Lutheran church in downtown Toronto serving the Latvian and Estonian population of Toronto.

It is home to two congregations: St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Estonian and St. Andrew's Evangelical Lutheran Latvian.

Today it remains home to two congregations of both the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran and Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

Originally a Roman Catholic cathedral, it became Lutheran in 1561 and now belongs to the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church.

There is one church, dedicated to St Nicholas, and part of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church.

The first extant Estonian book is a bilingual German-Estonian translation of the Lutheran catechism by S. Wanradt and J. Koell dating to 1535, during the Protestant Reformation period.

His parents were Lutheran, the mother was a Russian and the father an Estonian of German origin, he was an official in the Tsarist government.

In 1938, the Archbishop of Canterbury invited the representatives of the Estonian Lutheran Church and Latvian Lutheran Church to Lambeth Palace in order to reach " altar and pulpit fellowship " between the Anglican and Baltic Lutheran churches.

In Northern Europe, the association's sister organizations are the Conservative Laestadians ' Central Association of the Finnish Associations of Peace () in Finland, the Sveriges fridsföreningarnas centralorganisation in Sweden, and the Estonian Lutheran Association of Peace ().

Alexander was born on 18 August 1815, but could not be baptized until six months later in the Estonian Lutheran Congregation of St. Petersburg as the German Lutheran Congregation of St. Petersburg had not agreed to perform the baptism.

It was rededicated in 1966, largely through donations by the worldwide Lutheran church, for use by the exile Estonian and Latvian communities in London.

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However, all Eastern Orthodox churches rejected this rule and continue to use the Julian calendar to determine the date of Easter ( except for the Finnish Orthodox Church and the Estonian Orthodox Church which now use the Gregorian Easter ).

Currently these include the Orthodox of the Belarusian exarchate ; the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia ; the Latvian, the Moldovan, the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate.

Orthodox missionaries also worked successfully among the Estonians from the 10th to the 12th centuries founding the Estonian Orthodox Church.

The cathedral, nowadays the main church of the Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate, has become for tourists somewhat of a symbol of Tallinn due to its exotic look, while the opinion of Estonians about it is rather ambiguous.

Liturgical languages used in the Eastern Orthodox Church include ( but are not limited to ): Koine Greek, Church Slavonic, Romanian, Georgian, Arabic, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Moldovan, Serbian, English, Spanish, French, Polish, Portuguese, Albanian, Finnish, Swedish, Chinese, Estonian, Korean, Japanese, many African dialects, and many other world languages.

* In Estonia, the CPSU branch was in the hands of reformers, who converted it into the Estonian Democratic Labour Party ( EDTP ).

The Estonian Declaration of Independence was issued in 1918.

A parliamentary republic was formed by the Estonian Constituent Assembly and the first Constitution of Estonia was adopted on June 15, 1920.

Estonia's immediate priority after regaining its independence was the withdrawal of Russian ( formerly Soviet ) forces from Estonian territory.

In 1525 the first book published in the Estonian language was printed.

An Estonian grammar book to be used by priests was printed in German in 1637.

The New Testament was translated into southern Estonian in 1686 ( northern Estonian, 1715 ).

The birth of native Estonian literature was in 1810 to 1820 when the patriotic and philosophical poems by Kristjan Jaak Peterson were published.

Peterson was the first student at the then German-language University of Tartu to acknowledge his Estonian origin, is commonly regarded as a herald of Estonian national literature and considered the founder of modern Estonian poetry.

When Estonia was invaded and occupied by the Soviet Union in World War II, the status of the Estonian language changed to the first of two official languages ( Russian being the other one ).

The Russian language was termed as ‘ the language of friendship of nations ’ and was taught to Estonian children, sometimes as early as in kindergarten.

Although teaching Estonian to non-Estonians in schools was compulsory, in practice learning the language was often considered unnecessary.

During the Perestroika era, The Law on the Status of the Estonian Language was adopted in January 1989.

In 1937, a prominent Estonian political leader Artur Sirk, while a fugitive in Luxembourg was found dead, having apparently committed suicide by jumping out a second-story window.

Although the Luxembourg Gendarmarie report assumed suicide, because of inconsistencies in the report, the Estonian charge d ' affairs in Paris, Rudolph Mollerson was sent to investigate.

Estonian historians including Pusta and Tomingas have argued that the death was an act of defenestration by agents of the first President of Estonia, Konstantin Päts.

An Estonian cultural association was founded in 1998.

The Estonian President Arnold Rüütel's state visit to Luxembourg was in May 2003, prime minister Andrus Ansip's in 2006.

In 2011 councillor Andrew Long was invited to visit the Estonian Parliament by Aare Heinvee MP of the Reformierakond ( Reform Party ).