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Most Lutheran schools in the United States are associated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), though there are several which are associated with other Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ...
The WELS Synodical Council governs the church when the church is not in convention. The council is made up of twenty-three WELS members including eleven clergy and thirteen laymen. These men "act as a corporate board to plan and direct WELS worldwide ministry", [ 29 ] but their decisions may be overruled by a synod convention.
(The WELS severed its fellowship relations with the LCMS in 1961, and also withdrew from the Synodical Conference in 1963.) In 1993, the ELS and WELS, working with a number of other worldwide Lutheran churches, some of which had been founded through mission work by both synods, founded the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC).
Founded as a non-sectarian school, later run by the Methodists and Presbyterians, taken over by the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1901 Golden Valley Lutheran College: Golden Valley, Minnesota: 1919–1985 Ind. Opened as Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis: Illinois State University: Springfield, Illinois ...
State bishops, Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover; Bishops of Helsinki; Lutheran bishops of Hólar; Bishops of Holstein-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Lübeck, 1977–2008) Bishops of Iceland; List of bishops of Lund (Earlier names on the list are Catholic) Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia ...
The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Brug, John F., Fredrich II, Edward C., Schuetze, Armin W., WELS and Other Lutherans .
North American Lutheran Church (NALC): North American Lutheran Seminary (Ambridge, Pennsylvania): housed at Trinity School for Ministry (Evangelical Anglican) Institute of Lutheran Theology (Brookings, South Dakota): pan-Lutheran; Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS): Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon, Wisconsin. The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.