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Logo of the International Lutheran Council

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The International Lutheran Council is a worldwide association of confessional Lutheran denominations. It is to be distinguished from the larger Lutheran World Federation, which is an association of the more theologically moderate to liberal Lutheran churches, all of which are in full communion with each other as a condition of membership. Unlike the LWF, the member church bodies of the ILC are not required to be in church-fellowship with each other, though many of them are. The organization was constituted in 1993 at a council held in Antigua, Guatemala, although it traces its roots back to theological conferences held in many locations in the 1950s and 1960s.

Member bodies of the ILC hold "an unconditional commitment to the Holy Scriptures as the inspired and infallible Word of God and to the Lutheran Confessions contained in the Book of Concord as the true and faithful exposition of the Word of God."

The Council has thirty participating churches as of 2007. Among its larger members are the Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil, and the Lutheran Church—Canada. Altogether, approximately 3,450,000 adherents belong to ILC member churches.

The Council's Chairman is Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church, Germany. Its Executive Secretary is the Rev. Dr. Samuel H. Nafzger [1], who is also Executive Director of the LCMS' Commission on Theology and Church Relations. Delegates to the ILC meet every two years.

The organization has not approved the 1999 Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification.