" They approached a notable Lutheran pastor, Friedrich Rittelmeyer, who was already working with Steiner's ideas, to join their efforts.

His grandfather, the son of a Lutheran pastor, had been a professor of theology.

* 1600 – Caspar Hennenberger, German Lutheran pastor, historian and cartographer ( b. 1529 )

* 1898 – Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr ( d. 1944 )

Kaj Harald Leininger Munk ( commonly called Kaj Munk ) ( 13 January 1898 – 4 January 1944 ) was a Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, known for his cultural engagement and his martyrdom during the Occupation of Denmark of World War II.

Klaus Fuchs was born in Rüsselsheim, Grand Duchy of Hesse, the third of four children to Lutheran pastor Emil Fuchs and his wife Else Wagner.

In some Lutheran churches, ordained clergy are called priests, while in others the term pastor is preferred.

In the 1920s, Steiner was approached by Friedrich Rittelmeyer, a Lutheran pastor with a congregation in Berlin.

* March 4 or 5 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright ( b. 1522 )

* October 14 – Lucas Maius, Lutheran Reformation pastor, theologian and playwright ( d. 1598 )

* Laurentius Carels, Swedish American Lutheran pastor

Frenchman Michel de Montaigne told a story of a Lutheran pastor who declared over dinner that he would rather hear a hundred masses than take part in one of Calvin's sacraments.

After the GDR was dissolved in October 1990, the Honeckers stayed with the family of the Lutheran pastor Uwe Holmer.

* Matthias Bel ( 1684 – 1749 ), Hungarian scholar, polymath and Lutheran pastor

During this time, Wiesbaden became Protestant with the nomination of Wolf Denthener as first Lutheran pastor on January 1, 1543.

Lutheran pastor and theologian Martin Niemöller, founder of the Confessing Church resistance movement against the Nazis, is an Honorary Citizen of Wiesbaden.

* Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Lutheran pastor, and theologian

At the age of three Marta was taken by an aunt and sent to Marienburg ( the present-day Alūksne in Latvia, near the border with Estonia and Russia ) where she was raised by Johann Ernst Glück, a Lutheran pastor and educator who was the first to translate the Bible into Latvian.

Lutheran pastor confirming the youth of his congregation

The celebration of the Mass in Lutheran churches follows a similar pattern to other traditions, starting with public confession ( Confiteor ) by all and a Declaration of Grace said by the priest or pastor.

The tree's scientific name honors Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg ( 1753 – 1815 ), a Lutheran pastor and amateur botanist in Pennsylvania.

In many of the new communities, churches and schools were set up in accordance with the ideas of N. F. S. Grundtvig, an influential Danish philosopher, hymn-writer and Lutheran pastor.

From 1906, Nordentoft, together with Jens M. Gregersen, a pastor from Kimballton, Iowa, and Peder P. Hornsyld, a lecturer at Grand View, had discussed the possibility of creating a new Danish colony with a dedicated Lutheran church and school on the west coast.

* Lloyd C. Douglas ( 1877 – 1951 ), author and pastor of the Lutheran Church

A Lutheran pastor conducted the service for the people in Qaanaaq.

The Porvoo Common Statement ( 1996 ), agreed to by the Anglican churches of the British Isles and most of the Lutheran churches of Scandinavia and the Baltic, also stated that " the continuity signified in the consecration of a bishop to episcopal ministry cannot be divorced from the continuity of life and witness of the diocese to which he is called.

Though the anthem of the Church of England is analogous to the motet of the Roman Catholic and Lutheran Churches, both being written for a trained choir and not for the congregation, it is as a musical form essentially English in its origin and development.

Apollos is regarded as a saint by several Christian churches, including the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod, which hold a commemoration for him, Aquila and Priscilla on February 13.

He is serious but confused, as he reads the works of philosophers and theologians as he studies for the Lutheran priesthood.

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 ).

Ruth is also commemorated as a matriarch in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod on July 16, and is one of the Five Heroines of the Order of the Eastern Star.

In addition to the Lutheran and Reformed branches of the Reformation, there is Anglicanism after the English Reformation.

The sixth commandment ( fifth in the Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches ) is translated as " Thou shalt not kill " by some denominations and as " Thou shalt not murder " by others.

Within the Lutheran communion there are openly gay clergy, for example, bishop Eva Brunne is an openly lesbian Bishop in the Church of Sweden.

The Crucifix, a cross with the corpus ( Body of Christ ), is an ancient symbol used within the Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Anglican, and Lutheran churches, in contrast with some Protestant groups, which use only a simple cross.

It is especially important in the Catholic Church, but is also used in Orthodox and Eastern Catholic, as well as Anglican, and Lutheran churches, ( though less often in other Protestant churches ), and it emphasizes Jesus ' sacrifice — his death by crucifixion, which Christians believe brought about the redemption of mankind.

Called to Common Mission is an agreement between The Episcopal Church and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA ), establishing full communion between them.

Some within the ELCA argued that requiring the historic episcopate would contradict the traditional Lutheran doctrine that the church exists wherever the Word is preached and Sacraments are practiced.

In addition to his writings on computer science, Knuth, a Lutheran, is also the author of 3: 16 Bible Texts Illuminated, in which he examines the Bible by a process of systematic sampling, namely an analysis of chapter 3, verse 16 of each book.

The remaining 95 % are Christians, so divided: 78 % of the Eritrean Orthodox faith, 12 % Roman Catholic and Eastern Catholic ( whose mass is held in Ge ' ez as opposed to Latin ), and 5 % belonging to various Protestant and other Christian denominations, the majority of which belong to the ( Lutheran ) Evangelical Church of Eritrea.

The Divine Service: This is the title for the liturgy in Lutheran churches and is used by most conservative Lutheran churches to refer to the Eucharist.