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Poland The Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession
The largest Protestant church in Poland, the
Evangelical
Church of the Augsburg Confession, or Old Lutheran Church,
had
about 90,000 members in six dioceses in 1989, figures
substantially reduced by postwar resettlement of the
German
minority that made up a large part of the church's
membership
(see Ethnic Groups
, this ch.). Services were conducted in
Polish.
The membership was concentrated in the Cieszyn Diocese, on
the
Czechoslovak border southwest of Kraków. Of the original
twentysix parishes founded in German communities of Silesia and
Pomerania, nineteen remained in 1985. Despite its name,
the
church was not a formal member of the Germany-based
Evangelical
Church of the Augsburg Confession.
Data as of October 1992
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