The International Lutheran Council, a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran church bodies, published this account marking the two hundredth anniversary of the 1817 Prussian Union, documenting the forced merger's liturgical impositions on Lutheran congregations and the Old Lutheran emigrations to Australia and North America it provoked in the decades that followed.
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A confessional Lutheran international body's own institutional record of an event central to its member churches' history, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable denominational institutional accounts, used here for the union's liturgical impositions and the emigrations it provoked, corroborated by Christopher Clark's peer reviewed journal article on the same union. NotesUsed for the union's liturgical impositions and the Old Lutheran emigrations it provoked to Australia and North America.
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PublisherInternational Lutheran Council
URLhttps://ilcouncil.org/2017/10/05/remembering-200th-anniversary-forced-union-lutheran-reformed-churches-prussia/
Source Typeinstitutional record
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