Irl A. Gladfelter

The Most Rev. Irl A. Gladfelter, M.Div., D.D., is the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (formerly known as the Evangelical Community Church-Lutheran). As such he is the Head of this Lutheran and Anglo-Catholic Christian denomination. He works with the Holy Synod of the church (consisting of all of the other Bishops of the Church) and the National Standing Committee. The Metropolitan Archbishop's headquarters is St. Michaels House in Kansas City, Missouri.

Archbishop Gladfelter is also the Metropolitan Archbishop of the Augustana Evangelical Catholic Communion, which is a communion of Evangelical Catholic, Lutheran, Anglican, Orthodox, and Independent Catholic Churches with true Apostolic Orders (i.e. succession) for the purpose of establishing a new Catholic Church sui iuris in full, visible union with the Roman Catholic Church and its Pope.