Diocese History

HISTORY OF THE ENTRY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE MTWARA/LINDI

HISTORY OF THE ENTRY OF THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN THE MTWARA/LINDI MISSION AREA ENTRY OF THE MTWARA CHURCH INTO THE CITY The Lutheran Church entered Mtwara in 1968. At that time, there were only a few Christians sent by the government to work in the southern regions. The servants were from Prisons, especially LILUNGU Prison. They gathered and started worship under Brother Mwaihojo from Mbeya. He gathered those who were there and began to have the intention of starting worship. He was from the Moravian Church. He started worship intending to be of the Moravian Church. When he gathered the First Christians, most of them were from the Northern Regions ARUSHA, KILIMANJARO, etc. After starting worship, he had to start worship with Lutheran procedures. That was the Beginning of the Lutheran Church in Mtwara.

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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) is a family member of the Lutheran World Federation, Christian Council of Tanzania, World Council of Churches, ACT Alliance, and All Africa Conference of Churches. On 5th October, 1893 Leipzig Missionaries arrived in Nkwarungo Machame, thereafter in 1922 Augustana Mission took over the Leipzig mission field due to 1st World War.

In 1926 Leipzig Mission came back and shared this mission field with Augustana, then in 1942 we became the Lutheran Church of Northern Tanganyika.

ELCT officially began its work in 1963. When the seven churches in the then Tanganyika (now Tanzania) formed one church. At the time of amalgamation, there were a total of 500,000 church members. To date, ELCT has about 7.3 million members.

The ELCT is divided into 28 Dioceses and each diocese is headed by a Bishop.

ELCT is headed by Presiding Bishop and the current Presiding Bishop is Rt. Rev. Dr. Alex Malasusa who is also the Bishop of the ELCT Eastern and Coastal Diocese

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania, South Eastern Diocese (ELCT SED)

The ELCT South Eastern Diocese is one of the 28 Diocese of ELCT, with a population of around XXX members. It comprises seven church districts in Mtwara, and Lindi Region.