The Lutheran Church of Australia (LCA) was formed in 1966 by the merger of two earlier Australian Lutheran bodies. The LCA subscribes to the Book of Concord and maintains historic Lutheran liturgical practice — infant baptism, weekly Lord's Supper, and the Real Presence. In recent years the LCA voted to ordain women to the pastoral office after decades of internal dispute, a step that has strained its fellowship with stricter Lutheran bodies. AskCredo places the LCA in the B-tier as a broadly orthodox Lutheran body whose recent departure on the ordination question distances it from the confessional rigor of the LCMS and WELS.
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Oceania · Founded 1966
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