The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Sweden, (Swedish, Evangelisk-lutherska kyrkan i Sverige) is a confessional Lutheran denomination in Sweden. The church was founded in 1968 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Martin, who had left the Church of Sweden in 1961. It is the oldest confessional Lutheran church in Sweden outside the Church of Sweden. The number of his members is around 30.
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