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The Minnesota North District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern two-thirds of the state of Minnesota; it also includes two congregations in Wisconsin and one in South Dakota.
LCMS Concordia Senior College: Fort Wayne, Indiana: 1957–1977 LCMS Prepared men for study in the LCMS seminaries Concordia University: Portland, Oregon: 1905–2020 LCMS Dana College: Blair, Nebraska: 1884–2010 ELCA Founded by the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church: Elizabeth College: Charlotte, North Carolina, and Salem, Virginia ...
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 ...
Many North American Lutheran denominations have universities and seminaries affiliated with them. 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.
However, most North American Lutherans belong to one of the three largest denominations, namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.
Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS): Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary (Mankato, Minnesota) North American Lutheran Church (NALC): North American Lutheran Seminary (Ambridge, Pennsylvania): housed at Trinity School for Ministry (Evangelical Anglican) Institute of Lutheran Theology (Brookings, South Dakota): pan-Lutheran
The Association of Free Lutheran Congregations (AFLC) is the sixth largest Lutheran church body in the United States. The AFLC includes congregations from the former Lutheran Free Church in 27 different U.S. states and four Canadian provinces.
The Minnesota South District was formed in 1963 when the Minnesota District was divided. District offices are located in Burnsville, Minnesota . Delegates from each congregation meet in convention every three years to elect the district president, vice presidents, circuit counselors, a board of directors, and other officers.