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The counties of the Metropolitan Council are the seven most densely-populated in the state. The Met Council has 17 members, 16 of whom represent a geographic district in the seven-county area with one chair who serves at large. All members are appointed by the Governor of Minnesota and are reappointed with each new governor in office. [2]
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council officers at its Synod Assembly to oversee the spiritual and organizational activities of its member congregations. [1]
The Church of God in Christ (COGIC) is a Holiness-Pentecostal Christian denomination, [1] [2] with a predominantly African-American membership. The denomination reports having more than 12,000 churches and over 6.5 million members in the United States. [3] The National Council of Churches ranks it as the fifth largest Christian denomination in ...
The church is led by a Presiding Bishop, who is elected from amongst the diocesan bishops, and remains a diocesan bishop in addition to his role as Primate. Presiding Bishop (Primate and Metropolitan) – no fixed see, elected from amongst the diocesan bishops below; Bishop of the Northern Diocese; Bishop of the Southern Diocese
Moravian Church in America, Northern Province: 20,220 members (2010) [68] Universal Fellowship of Metropolitan Community Churches: 15,666 members (2006) [69] Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: 12,000 members (2007) Congregational Christian Churches (not part of any national CCC body) Moravian Church in America, Alaska Province
The Diocese of the Midwest is a diocese of the Orthodox Church in America (OCA). Its territory includes parishes, monasteries, missions, and chapels located in twelve states in the Midwestern United States – Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Dakota, South Dakota Nebraska, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
St. George Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 2412 Foster Ave Nashville, TN 37210; St. Mark Coptic Orthodox Church, Nashville, Tennessee 1931 Old Murfreesboro Pike, Nashville, TN 37217-3022; St. Mary Coptic Orthodox Church, Knoxville, Tennessee 1921 Sunny Ln, Knoxville, TN 37912
These churches ultimately fed into the 1988 formation of the mainline Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). [13] The Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church of Minneapolis is one of two American churches as of 2024 still using Norwegian as the primary liturgical language.