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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council officers at its Synod Assembly to oversee the spiritual and organizational activities of its member congregations. [1]
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]
A synod assembly is an event in which nominated representatives of congregations in one of the regional synods of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America vote on how to run the synod, elect in bishops, and elect representatives to the ELCA's churchwide assembly.
The Rev. Greg Busboom, pastor of St. John's Lutheran (ELCA) Church, will be installed bishop of the synod serving central and southern Illinois.
Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, exists as SELC District of the LCMS; United Evangelical Lutheran Church; United Lutheran Church in America (1918–1962) United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America; United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South (1861–1918)
This group, the largest Lutheran church body in the United States at the time, provided the bulk of the eventual LCA's membership. The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (Suomi Synod), established in 1890. The American Evangelical Lutheran Church, traditionally a Danish-American Lutheran denomination, established in 1872.
The 2009 ELCA Churchwide Assembly was the eleventh biennial Churchwide Assembly of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It convened in the city of Minneapolis , Minnesota , from August 17–23, 2009.
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.