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The WELS Synodical Council governs the church when the church is not in convention. The council is made up of twenty-three WELS members including eleven clergy and thirteen laymen. These men "act as a corporate board to plan and direct WELS worldwide ministry", [ 29 ] but their decisions may be overruled by a synod convention.
Most Lutheran schools in the United States are associated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS), or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), though there are several which are associated with other Lutheran denominations such as the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ ...
Founded as a non-sectarian school, later run by the Methodists and Presbyterians, taken over by the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1901 Golden Valley Lutheran College: Golden Valley, Minnesota: 1919–1985 Ind. Opened as Lutheran Bible Institute in Minneapolis: Illinois State University: Springfield, Illinois ...
In 1872, they along with the LCMS and the WELS formed the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America. In 1917, the Norwegian Synod merged with two other Norwegian Lutheran groups and formed the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, later named the Evangelical Lutheran Church. This led to disagreement among members of the ...
A map of the nine ELCA regions. Note that the Slovak Zion Synod falls under Region 7 and the Bahamas and the Caribbean under Region 9.. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices.
The Lutheran Church in America (LCA) was created in 1962 by a merger among the United Lutheran Church in America (created in 1918 by an earlier merger of three German Lutheran synods in the eastern U.S.); Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Swedish ethnicity with some dating to the colonial era; the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of ...
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America; General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (1869-1918) Hauge Synod; Icelandic Evangelical Lutheran Synod of America; Lutheran Church in America (1962–1987) Lutheran Confessional Synod; Lutheran Council in the United States of America (LCUSA) (1962–1987) Lutheran Free ...
The NALC also started a seminary system called the North American Lutheran Seminary on the campus of Trinity School for Ministry, a seminary with ties to the Anglican Church in North America. The NALC held an ecumenical summit with representatives of the ACNA, the LCMS, and the LCC on May 3–5, 2013, at the Church of the Holy Communion in ...