Lutheran World Federation: from the Pan-Lutheran Bodies Collection
Scope and Contents
This collection documents the activities of the Lutheran World Federation. It includes meeting minutes, governing documents, reports, assembly materials, programs, pamphlets, correspondence, and miscellaneous records.
Dates
- Existence: 1947
Creator
- Lutheran World Federation (Creator, Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research.
Biographical / Historical
The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran churches headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. Founded in Lund, Sweden in 1947 after WWII, it replaced the Lutheran World Convention (founded 1924) to coordinate the activities of different Lutheran churches to provide a forum for discussions on theological and organizational issues.
Extent
0 Cubic Feet (7 Boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Processing Information
This collection was originally processed by Katie McGowan in January 2014. Additional material was added in June 2018 by Assistant Archivist, Kristen Wall. The collection was consolidated and reprocessed by Matthew Kayhart and the finding aid was updated by Sheila Joy in March 2019.
Creator
- Lutheran World Federation (Creator, Organization)
- LWF Council (Creator, Organization)
- Title
- Lutheran World Federation
- Subtitle
- Record Group: Pan-Lutheran Bodies
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Katie McGowan and Sheila Joy and Matthew Kayhart
- Date
- 2014-01-01
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Revision Statements
- 2019-03-01: Updated by Sheila Joy and Matthew Kayhart
Repository Details
Part of the Lutheran Organizations Record Groups, Seminary Archives, United Lutheran Seminary Library, Gettysburg, PA Repository