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Derek Lecakes was re-elected as the district president at the 61st Regular Convention that was held on July 22–23, 2022, at Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Albany, New York. He subsequently was replaced by Dien Ashley Taylor, who had been elected first vice president at the convention.
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.
In addition, sixteen congregations in the Eastern District's area are in the non-geographic English District, and eleven Pennsylvania congregations are in the SELC District. The Eastern District includes 135 congregations and missions, subdivided into 11 circuits , as well as 28 preschools and 9 elementary schools .
The Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Matthew is the oldest Lutheran congregation in North America. The congregation is a member of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). Since 2006, the congregation has been located at the Cornerstone Center, 178 Bennett Avenue in Manhattan, New York City. The congregation has been known by different ...
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 ...
Holy Cross Armenian Apostolic Church (New York City) Holy Trinity Lutheran Church (Manhattan) L. Iglesia Pentecostal La Luz del Mundo (Brooklyn) M.
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
Area Bishop Membership Congregations New Jersey Synod New Jersey: Tracie Bartholomew [90] 44,875 [91] 156 [91] New England Synod New England, Northeast New York: Nathan D. Pipho [92] 38,163 [93] 172 [93] Metropolitan New York Synod New York City, Hudson Valley, & Long Island: Paul Egensteiner [94] 54,403 [95] 187 [95] Upstate New York Synod ...