A congregation in the southwestern Latvian diocese of Liepaja has voted in a general meeting to split from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (ELCL) and join the Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad (LELCA) after the ELCL Sinod last week voted to ban the ordination of women for church ministry.
The Rev. Martins Urdze had said already earlier that if the Sinod wrote the ban on women's ordination in the ELCL constitution he will tender resignation and join the LELCA. The Cross Congregation, led by Urdze, overwhelmingly voted to leave the ELCL and join...
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