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The Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago was established on September 4, 1962, as the merger of four existing seminaries: the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church's Augustana Theological Seminary at Rock Island, Illinois, the American Evangelical Lutheran Church's Grand View Seminary at Des Moines, Iowa, the United Lutheran Church in America's (ULCA) Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary at ...
It is closely tied to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination. Froiland's mother, the Rev. Lisa Bates-Froiland, is the pastor of Redeemer Lutheran Church ...
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, a mainline Protestant denomination in Chicago, Illinois Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States) , 1917–1960 Evangelical Lutheran Church (Frederick, Maryland)
Augustana Hospital (also known as Deaconess Institution of the Swedish Evangelical Lutheran Church and Augustana Hospital and Deaconess Institution) was a hospital in Chicago, Illinois. Affiliated with the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, it was established in 1882. [1] In 1987, Augustana Hospital merged with Advocate Lutheran General ...
In 1864, the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod moved its teacher training to the village from Fort Wayne, Indiana, and established the Addison Teachers Seminary; it remained in Addison until 1913, when it was relocated to River Forest, Illinois, as Concordia Teachers College (now Concordia University Chicago). [8]
Rev. H. H. Hartmann was the field missionary of the Northern Illinois District of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States (the former name mostly German-speaking LCMS), and both he and Rev. H. Prange of Trinity Lutheran Church, Oak Park, provided the group with organizational guidance. By May 25 the core group had ...
The Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (AELC) was a U.S. church body that existed from 1976 through the end of 1987.The AELC formed when approximately 250 dissident congregations withdrew from the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in 1976, and ended as an independent body when it became part of the new Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on January 1, 1988.
In 1945, the name was shortened to Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church. By 1959, the use of Slovak as a primary liturgical language had died out and the denomination was renamed the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, thereby retaining SELC as its acronym. [2] The SELC entered into altar and pulpit fellowship with the LCMS in 1903. [1]