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The Laestadian (See also Laestadianism) church arrived in North America with Nordic (especially Finnish and Sami) immigrants in the latter half of the 19th century, many of whom arrived to work in the copper mines of the Keweenaw Peninsula. Some of these new immigrants found themselves in conflict with older, established immigrants from the same countries, being generally poorer and less established, and hewing to the new, fundamentalist teachings of Lars Levi Laestadius, a Swedish-Sami preacher and botanist born in Arjeplog, Sweden. Laestadian congregations separate from the extant Scandinavian Lutheran churches were formed in Cokato, Minnesota, in 1872 and in Calumet, Michigan, in 1873. == Groups in America in 2013 == 171 000 laestadians in total in world. 26 000 laestadians in total in America.〔Talonen 2001. s. 25〕〔Talonen 2012. Lecture (in finnish) in Laestadius-seminar in Oulu 5. october 2012. Virtuaalikirkko has videos from seminar, and they are archived in Internet: http://www.virtuaalikirkko.fi/kirkot/virtuaalikirkkosali/arkisto.html〕 * 1. Firstborn laestadianism ("Esikoinens") 10 000 people in U.S.A. (Old Apostolic Lutheran Church) * 2. Little firstborn group (Rauhan Sana group) (Federation) ("Mickelsons"〔http://extoots.blogspot.fi/2008/08/sports-good-thing_05.html〕〔http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=75093116〕〔http://www.kingstonalc.com/church-history.php〕) 6 000 people (in U.S.A.(Apostolic Lutheran Church of America), Canada(ALC) and Guatemala) * 3. Conservative laestadianism ("Heidemans") 5 000 people (in U.S.A.(Laestadian Lutheran Church), Canada(LLC) and Ecuador) * 4. Torola group 4 000 people in U.S.A. (First Apostolic Lutheran Church) * 5. Reedites (pollarites) 3,500 people in U.S.A (Independent Apostolic Lutheran Church) * 6. Aunesites 550 people in U.S.A. (The Apostolic Lutheran Church) * 7. Andersonites about 200 people in U.S.A. in South Carolina (Grace Apostolic Lutheran Church) * 8. Davidites 40 people in U.S.A. * 9. Melvinites 20 people in U.S.A. 〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laestadianism in the United States」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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