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Area Bishop Membership Congregations Metropolitan Chicago Synod Chicago (IL) Yehiel Curry [54] 69,073 [55] 171 [55] Northern Illinois Synod Northern Illinois: Stacie Fidlar [56] 57,139 [57] 143 [57] Central/Southern Illinois Synod Central & Southern Illinois: S. John Roth [58] 34,956 [59] 121 [59] Southeastern Iowa Synod Southeast Iowa: Amy ...
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
Pages in category "Evangelical Lutheran Church in America synods" The following 34 pages are in this category, out of 34 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
This is a list of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses currently active, grouped by national (or regional) church, and showing the titles of the bishops of those dioceses. Where relevant, the metropolitan bishop or primate is listed first.
Done in Inkscape and based on the Blank US states-counties map.svg Note I grouped the counties into states but split Texas, Michigan, and Pennsylvania as those states were split between regions. One could use this map to create a map of the synods
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)