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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 ...
Evangelical Lutheran Concordia English Synod (of Maryland, Virginia and West Virginia) Evangelical Lutheran Federation (disbanded 1998) [7] Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America (1820–1918) Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio (and Other States) (1818–1930) Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland (1820–1918 ...
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.
Evangelical Covenant Church (ECC) Yes (42 + online) Living Word Christian Center Chicago: IL Bill Winston: 18,000 [citation needed] Non-denominational: Lutheran Church of Hope West Des Moines: IA Mike Housholder 10,000 [3] Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ: Mariners Church: Irvine: CA Eric Geiger 12,200 [3] Non-denominational Evangelical
Federation of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in Russia and Other States: 2011: 24,050 [105] Russia: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Ingria in Russia [D]--15,000 [105] Rwanda: Lutheran Church of Rwanda--6,372 [106] Senegal: The Lutheran Church of Senegal--4,053 [107] Serbia: Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia--49,000 ...
St. Paul Evangelical Lutheran Church (Appleton, Wisconsin) Appleton, Wisconsin: St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Milwaukee, Wisconsin) Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Saint Stephen Evangelical Lutheran Church of Milwaukee: Milwaukee, Wisconsin: St. Lucas Evangelical German Lutheran Church and Cemetery: Wisconsin: St. Martini Evangelical Lutheran ...
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 ...
In 1960, the ELC joined with Lutheran churches of German and Danish backgrounds to form The American Lutheran Church, the first Lutheran body in North America to have multiple ethnic backgrounds. [ citation needed ] This coalescence of Lutheran churches continued into recent times, with the ALC later joining others 28 years later to form the ...