Women are ordained in Lutheran churches throughout the world. These Lutheran churches subscribe, as we do, to the Book of Concord. It is this confession that unites us as Lutherans. Some information we have collected to date about world-wide practice is below.
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• Ordination of women in the Lutheran church worldwide, 2013
• A theological statement of the American Lutheran church, 1972

Did you know that female Lutheran pastors serve in Australia from time to time? There are Lutheran churches in Australia that are affiliated not with the LCA but with their home nation, and at times the pastors stationed here are female.