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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]
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]
This is a list of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America colleges and universities: Augsburg University (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois) Augustana University (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas) California Lutheran University (Thousand Oaks, California) Capital University (Bexley, Ohio)
The American Association of Lutheran Churches (AALC, also known as The AALC or TAALC) is a Lutheran church body based in the United States. It was formed on November 7, 1987, as a continuation of the American Lutheran Church denomination, the majority of which merged with the Lutheran Church in America and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church ...
The Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was formed by the merger of the Hauge Synod (est. 1876), the Norwegian Synod (est. 1853), and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (est. 1890). The NLCA changed its name to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) in 1946 as part of its Americanization process.
United Lutheran Seminary is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Gettysburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is one of the seven seminaries of the church. [3] It was created in 2017 when the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia consolidated.
Luther Seminary is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the largest seminary of the ELCA. It also accepts and educates students of 41 other denominations and traditions. [3] It is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission and the Association of Theological Schools.
In addition, the ELCA sponsors the following seminary education programs, which are not on the campus of an ELCA seminary: Lutheran Seminary Program in the Southwest [1] (Austin, Texas) Lutheran Theological Center in Atlanta [2] (Georgia) Former seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: