Confessional Lutheranism or Confessional Evangelical-Lutheranism is a name used by Lutherans to designate those who believe in the doctrines taught in the Book of Concord of 1580 in their entirety. Co
A priest elevates the host during the Holy Mass, offered in the Chapel of Heavenly Joy in Kristianstad; the Chapel of Heavenly Joy (Himmelska glädjens kapell) is a part of the Mission Province, a Confessional Lutheran denomination in Sweden.
...one holy Church is to continue forever. The Church is the congregation of saints, in which the Gospel is rightly taught and the Sacraments are rightly administered.—Augsburg Confession
Franz Pieper (1852–1931) taught the importance of a quia subscription
The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, also referred to simply as the Wisconsin Synod, is an American Confessional Lutheran denomination of Christianity. Characterized as theologically conservative
Confessional Lutheranism
…Independent Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Germany, the Lutheran Church of Australia, and the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil. Among the CELC are the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Other confessional Lutherans include the Church of the Lutheran Confession, the American Association of Lutheran…
The WELS holds to the belief of "Sola scriptura" ("by Scripture alone").
The Synodical Conference was founded in St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Rev. Paul Mayerhoff lived in this tent for six months in 1896 at the beginning of his Call as a Wisconsin Synod missionary to the Apache. He catechized children, learned their language, and translated parts of Luther's Small Catechism into Apache.
Winnebago Lutheran Academy, a WELS high school in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, was founded in 1926.