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Mark S. Hanson (born December 2, 1946) is an American bishop who served as the third Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.Before being elected presiding bishop, he served as bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod as well as pastor of three Minnesota congregations: Prince of Glory Lutheran Church, Minneapolis; Edina Community Lutheran Church; and University Lutheran ...
Northeastern Minnesota Synod Northeast Minnesota: Amy Odgren [32] 53,584 [33] 132 [33] Southwestern Minnesota Synod Southwest Minnesota: Dee Pederson [34] 102,163 [35] 232 [35] Minneapolis Area Synod Minneapolis (MN) Jen Nagel [36] 156,316 [37] 141 [37] Saint Paul Area Synod Saint Paul (MN) Patricia J. Lull [38] 102,414 [39] 105 [39 ...
The earliest nationwide "synod" or "union of synods" was established in 1820 as the General Synod, followed later by the General Council. The ELCA was created in 1988 by the merging of the 2.85-million-member Lutheran Church in America (1962), 2.25-million-member The American Lutheran Church (1960), and the 100,000-member Association of ...
Christ Church Lutheran is a congregation of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Minneapolis.Its buildings—a sanctuary with chapel (1949) and an education wing (1962) designed by Finnish-American architects Eliel Saarinen and Eero Saarinen—have been internationally recognized, most recently in 2009 as a National Historic Landmark by the U.S Department of the Interior.
The building's principal facade is symmetrical and features a Classical pediment supported by Ionic columns and pilasters, flanked by bell towers. An office wing, which currently houses the Saint Paul Area Synod of the ELCA, was constructed in 1962–63. The congregation was formally organized in 1868 as the Scandinavian Lutheran Church Society.
Mpls-synod.org of the ELCA; Mindekirken's listing at the ELCA's Minneapolis Synod web site; Mindekirken is centrally located in the Ventura Village neighborhood in the Phillips Community Archived 2011-08-02 at the Wayback Machine of Minneapolis, Minnesota. Photos. Norwegian Lutheran Memorial Church at the Minnesota Historical Society
The SELC's name was changed in 1913 to Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the United States of America. In 1945, the name was shortened to Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church . By 1959, the use of Slovak as a primary liturgical language had died out and the denomination was renamed the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, thereby retaining ...
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.