United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Grem, Darren2006-11-03Encyclopedia article about the Lutheran Church in Georgia. Lutheranism, with more than 60 million members, is the largest of the Protestant denominations. It was founded in the early sixteenth century when a German monk, Martin Luther, protested the Roman Catholic Church's practice of selling indulgences as part of the penance, or punishment, for those who sinned against church teachings. Lutheranism is thus central to the Protestant Reformation and, aided by the rulers of many German principalities rebelling against the centralized power of the Holy Roman Empire, it rapidly spread throughout Germany and Scandinavia. It was imported into the Georgia colony in the early eighteenth century and by the turn of the millennium had established itself as a significant denomination within the state.text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Lutherans--GeorgiaProtestants--GeorgiaLutheran Church--GeorgiaLuther, Martin, 1483-1546Lutheran ChurchText