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The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia University System. Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Church of the Lutheran Brethren , also have their own colleges and universities.
The Northern Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern third of the state of Illinois, including the Illinois portions of the Chicago metropolitan area; the rest of the state is divided between the Central Illinois District and the Southern Illinois District.
The Central Illinois District includes approximately 159 congregations and missions, subdivided into 16 circuits, as well as 30 preschools, 23 elementary schools, and 3 high schools. Baptized membership in district congregations is over 64,000.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University; Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
The Southern Illinois District includes 96 congregations [2] and 1 mission start, [3] subdivided into 11 circuits, as well as 14 preschools, 22 elementary schools, and 3 high schools. [4] Baptized membership in district congregations is 43,046. [ 5 ]
LCMS Concordia Senior College: Fort Wayne, Indiana: 1957–1977 LCMS Prepared men for study in the LCMS seminaries Concordia University: Portland, Oregon: 1905–2020 LCMS Dana College: Blair, Nebraska: 1884–2010 ELCA Founded by the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church: Elizabeth College: Charlotte, North Carolina, and Salem, Virginia ...
The LCMS also calls these organizations "partner churches". [8] The American Association of Lutheran Churches says their altar and pulpit fellowship with the Missouri Synod means the two church bodies are "separate but interdependent", [9] and that pastors of each organization may be called to permanent pastoral positions in the other. [10]
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 ...