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John N. Kildahl (1857-1920) - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College O. P. Kretzmann (1901-1975) - President of Valparaiso University , Lutheran pastor, author, and professor
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [2] is a confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States. With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [ 4 ] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America .
The Minnesota North District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern two-thirds of the state of Minnesota; it also includes two congregations in Wisconsin and one in South Dakota.
The Southern Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the southern third of the state of Illinois; the rest of the state is divided between the Northern Illinois District and the Central Illinois District. [1]
Each Missouri Synod district chooses its own president from among the pastors in the district at its triennial convention. In some districts the district president occupies a full-time position, while in others he continues to serve as pastor in a local congregation or specialized ministry (hospitals, military chaplains, colleges / universities ...
The LCMS president, C. F. W. Walther, urged the Tennessee Synod members to organize themselves as a conference of the Tennessee Synod, the English (Evangelical) Lutheran Conference of Missouri. [ 2 ] The conference applied for admission to the LCMS as a district in 1887, but was advised to instead form a separate synod because the LCMS was ...
About 40 existing congregations are historically black congregations, and most of the black pastors and teachers in the LCMS originated in this area. [ 2 ] District offices are located in Slidell, Louisiana .
The South Wisconsin District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the southern third of the state of Wisconsin.The northern two-thirds are in the North Wisconsin District; there are also two Wisconsin congregations in the Minnesota North District.