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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.
In January 2016, the seminary's board announced a merger with the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg. [7] [8] While originally planned as a closure of both schools with the formation of a new institution, this plan was canceled over accreditation issues [9] and a merger of the two schools was completed July 1m 2017, under the name United Lutheran Seminary.
United Lutheran Seminary (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania): Merger of Lutheran Theological Seminaries at Gettysburg and Philadelphia; Wartburg Theological Seminary (Dubuque, Iowa) 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 ...
United Lutheran Seminary: Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Michael L. Cooper-White (President) 1938: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities: New Brighton, Minnesota: Barbara A. Holmes (President) 1966: United Church of Christ United Theological Seminary: Dayton, Ohio
United Lutheran Seminary: Gettysburg borough: Adams: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: Special Focus Four-Year: Faith-Related Institutions 390 1864 United Lutheran Seminary: Philadelphia: Philadelphia: Evangelical Lutheran Church in America: satellite campus 260 1864 Palmer Theological Seminary: Lower Merion township: Montgomery: American ...
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: Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania): merged with Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia to form United Lutheran Seminary
Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Church of the Lutheran Brethren, also have their own colleges and universities. Valparaiso University is a Lutheran university that is not affiliated directly with a single denomination but shares ties to the ELCA and LCMS.
It was founded in 1826 under prominent but controversial theologian and professor Samuel Simon Schmucker (1799-1873) for the recently organized General Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the United States. The seminary was the oldest continuing Lutheran seminary in the United States until it was merged on July 1, 2017, after 189 years ...