Episcopal Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church of Bavaria Enter Full Communion in 2024
By Claudette
Posted Nov 10, 2026 at 5:36 PM
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, which has about 2.3 million members, is part of the largest Protestant church in Germany. Its relationship with The Episcopal Church is the subject of a page on the Episcopal Church’s website.
According to that page, the two churches began a dialogue in 2013. The dialogue led to a relationship of full communion in 2024. The relationship is based on an agreement titled “Share the Gifts of Communion,” which the page also calls the Augsburg Agreement.
The page lists the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria’s affiliations, including the World Council of Churches and the Assembly of Episcopal Churches of Europe. The text of the listing is partly garbled in the source, so the full set of bodies cannot be confirmed from it.
The page directs readers to additional resources and information about the relationship. It does not include further details about the terms of the agreement, its implementation, or responses to it. The 2024 agreement marked the move from dialogue to shared fellowship between the two churches, a sign of unity in practice (Psalm 133:1).
Source: Read the original report (translated from Spanish)
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