In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada ( ELCIC ), the largest Lutheran Church bodies in the United States and Canada respectively and roughly based on the Nordic Lutheran state churches ( similar to that of the Church of England ), bishops are elected by Synod Assemblies, consisting of both lay members and clergy, for a term of 6 years, which can be renewed, depending upon the local synod's " constitution " ( which is mirrored on either the ELCA or ELCIC's national constitution ).

The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod ( LCMS ) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), the second and third largest Lutheran bodies in the United States and the two largest Confessional Lutheran bodies in North America, do not have a bishop as the head of the church or middle jurisdiction, practicing a form of congregationalism similar to the United Church of Christ.

The United Church of Christ ( UCC ) is the result of a union constructed according to congregationalist theory between the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches.

The Evangelical and Reformed Church was the result of a partial union of the Reformed Church in the United States and the Evangelical Synod of North America ( a union of Lutherans and Reformed ).

For example, the Friends United Meeting and the Evangelical Friends International believe that sexual relations are condoned only in marriage, which they define to be between a man and a woman.

Most churches in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, also practice their own form of open communion, provided those who receive are baptized and believe in the Real Presence.

See Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America.

At the 2008 General Conference, the United Methodist Church approved full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

The United Methodist Church was formed in 1968 as a result of a merger between the Evangelical United Brethren ( EUB ) and the Methodist Church.

The Evangelical Church was formed by a group of EUB congregations who dissented from the merger which formed the United Methodist Church.

Methodist and Wesleyan traditions in the Philippines are shared by three of the largest mainline Protestant churches in the country – The United Methodist Church, Iglesia Evangelica Metodista En Las Islas Filipinas ( IEMELIF ) ( Evangelical Methodist Church in the Philippine Islands ), and The United Church of Christ in the Philippines.

In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren Church's Canadian congregations joined after their American counterparts joined the United Methodist Church.

Mainline American Protestant denominations, including the United Methodist Church, Presbyterian Church USA, The Episcopal Church, and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, do not teach the doctrine of inerrancy as set forth in the Chicago Statement.

Roman Catholic 27 %, Lutheran 19 %, United 11 %, Seventh-day Adventist 10 %, Pentecostal 8 %, Evangelical Alliance 5 %, Anglican 3 %, Traditional Religions 17 %

* Evangelical Presbyterian Church ( United States )

In 2008, Turner explained he not only regretted these statements but said he had made peace with organized religion and had joined with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and the United Methodist Church to fight malaria.

The United Methodist Church ( UMC ) is a Methodist Christian denomination that is both mainline Protestant and Evangelical.

Founded in 1968 by the union of The Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren Church, the UMC traces its roots back to the revival movement of John and Charles Wesley within the Church of England.

On April 23, 1968, the United Methodist Church was created when the Evangelical United Brethren Church ( represented by Bishop Reuben H. Mueller ) and The Methodist Church ( represented by Bishop Lloyd Christ Wicke ) joined hands at the constituting General Conference in Dallas, Texas.

The flame in the church logo represents the work of the Holy Spirit in the world, and the two parts of the flame also represent the predecessor denominations, the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren, united at the base symbolizing the 1968 merger.

Although United Methodist practices and interpretation of beliefs have evolved over time, these practices and beliefs can be traced to the writings of the church's founders, especially John Wesley and Charles Wesley ( Anglicans ), but also Philip William Otterbein and Martin Boehm ( United Brethren ), and Jacob Albright ( Evangelical ).

* The Confessions of Faith of the Evangelical United Brethren Church ;

** The United Methodist Church is created by the union of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.

* Evangelical United Brethren

* Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren, a Czech Lutheran – Reformed Protestant church

In addition to the Ephrata Cloister, the United Brethren in Christ and the Evangelical United Brethren ( EUB ) trace their beginnings to a 1767 meeting at the Isaac Long barn, near the hamlet of Oregon, in West Lampeter Township.

The Christian Church is represented by various denominations, among which are Church of England, Roman Catholic, Methodist, Baptist, Evangelical, Brethren, Pentecostal, Quakers, etc.

The Westfield United Methodist Church is the result of the merger of the Methodist Church and the Evangelical United Brethren ( EUB ) Church in 1968.

1946-1968 it became the Evangelical United Brethren church.

In 1968, the Evangelical United Brethren Church merged with the Methodist Church and became known as the United Methodist Church.

Actually, there is reference made to two churches, an Evangelical church dated from 1871, and a frame church owned by the United Brethren, the date not given.

as well as Baptist, Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Congregational, Brethren and Bethesda Evangelical Church and the Salvation Army.

The Plymouth Brethren is a conservative, Evangelical Christian movement, whose history can be traced to Dublin, Ireland, in the late 1820s.

The spirit of ecumenism with other denominations stayed strong throughout the decade, culminating in 1968 when the Canada Conference of The Evangelical United Brethren Church joined the United Church.

In the 20th Century, the United Brethren and Evangelical Association merged to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church, and then with the Methodist Church to form the United Methodist Church.

1946: The Evangelical Church ( Albright's Evangelical Association ) and Otterbein's Church of the United Brethren in Christ merged to form the Evangelical United Brethren Church.

* The Lusitanian Catholic Apostolic Evangelical Church ( extraprovincial to the Archbishop of Canterbury )

In the German Evangelical Church the German title of Abt ( abbot ) is sometimes bestowed, like the French abbé, as an honorary distinction, and survives to designate the heads of some monasteries converted at the Reformation into collegiate foundations.

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America celebrates these two, together with Silas, on the same date.

Berlin's best preserved medieval Church of St. Mary's is the 1 < sup > st </ sup > preaching venue – Memorial Church being the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > – of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ( EKBO ), a Protestant regional church body.

Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church is the 2 < sup > nd </ sup > preaching venue of the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia | Regional Protestant Church ( EKBO ).

One branch of the ritualistic movement argued that both ' Romanisers ' ( by imitating the Church of Rome ) and their Evangelical opponents ( by imitating Reformed churches ) transgressed the Ornaments Rubric of 1559, ' that such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all Times of their Ministration, shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England, by the Authority of Parliament, in the Second Year of the Reign of King Edward the Sixth '.

The Baptists have been non-creedal “ in that they have not sought to establish binding authoritative confessions of faith on one another .” Also rejecting creeds are groups with roots in the Restoration Movement, such as the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), the Evangelical Christian Church in Canada and the Churches of Christ.

Others, including the Christian Church ( Disciples of Christ ), Evangelical Christian Church in Canada, Churches of Christ, and the Christian churches and churches of Christ, have their roots in the contemporaneous Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement, which was centered in Kentucky and Tennessee.