It is, in common with many Lutheran churches,[1] led by a bishop and a council of lay members and clergy elected at its annual synod.

A group of theologians at the University of Cambridge, which met at the White Horse tavern from the mid-1520s and became known as 'Little Germany', was influential.

Its members included Robert Barnes, Hugh Latimer, John Frith and Thomas Bilney.

The first officially sanctioned Lutheran congregation, organised in 1669, received a royal charter in 1672 from Charles II.

The foundation stone of the new Holy Trinity Church was laid on 21 November 1672 and the completed building was dedicated one year later on Advent Sunday 1673.

In addition, The Queen's Chapel of the Savoy, a royal peculiar and thus not subject to a bishop's jurisdiction, hosted the German congregation of Westminster.

[5] All Lutheran congregations in Britain were originally ethnic churches that worshipped in various national languages and most that remain still function on ethnic-linguistic lines.

The LCiGB was founded as the English-speaking United Lutheran Synod in April 1961 by four congregations in London, High Wycombe, Corby, and Hothorpe Hall.