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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 .
From the time of its founding in 1847, for eight years until 1854, the LC-MS held annual synod-wide conventions. However, given the rapid growth in number of confessional Evangelical Lutheran congregations and the large geographic area then covered by the synod in its first decade in the United States, from the States of Iowa in the west, to western New York state in the northeast, and from ...
Rev. Adolf W. Kramer, 1906–1909; Rev. Charles A. Waech, 1909–1912; Rev. Gotthilf Heinrich Wilhelm Birkmann, 1912–1920; Rev. Henry Peter Studtmann, 1920–1926
A circuit visitor is a pastor who helps to oversee the other pastors within a circuit. The position is best understood as a peer advisor, as the LCMS has traditionally been congregational, as opposed to hierarchical, in its extra-congregational structure. Nevertheless, there is a district president (sometimes called a bishop) over the circuit ...
Within the synod the seminary was referred to as the "practical seminary" because its purpose was to quickly provide pastors for congregations. It provided both pre-seminary and seminary instruction. The pre-seminary course of work was similar to that of a high school, and the seminary classes provided enough theological training to enable the ...
The Pacific Southwest District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). It covers Southern California (the eight southernmost counties in California, including the Los Angeles metropolitan area), Arizona and the southern tip of Nevada, and includes approximately 291 congregations subdivided into 32 circuits, as well as 72 preschools, 65 elementary schools ...
David Benke is a Lutheran pastor and the former president of the Atlantic District of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod, or LCMS.After the 9/11 attacks, Benke participated in an interfaith event with people of other faiths, including Muslims.