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Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711 - 1786) - Founder of the Lutheran church in America. Peter Muhlenberg (1746 - 1807) - Clergy, Revolutionary War soldier, US House, US Senate Ishmael Noko (b. 1943)- General secretary of the Lutheran World Federation .
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod The LCMS logo (2020) Abbreviation LCMS Classification Protestant Orientation Confessional Lutheran Polity Synodical/modified congregational Structure National synod, 35 middle level districts, and local congregations President Matthew C. Harrison Altar and pulpit fellowship American Association of Lutheran Churches Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia ...
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The Rev. Timothy J. Scharr became the district president August 29, 2010, upon the election of the Rev. Herbert C. Mueller, Jr. as the First Vice President of the LCMS [7] and was elected to a full three year term in 2012.
Matthew Carl Harrison (born March 14, 1962, in Sioux City, Iowa) is the 13th and current president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). As president, he is the chief ecclesiastical supervisor of the Synod and is responsible for the national program ministries of the LCMS, including the Office of International Mission, which calls and employs some 150 missionaries globally. [1]
About 40 existing congregations are historically black congregations, and most of the black pastors and teachers in the LCMS originated in this area. [ 2 ] District offices are located in Slidell, Louisiana .
The LCMS president, C. F. W. Walther, urged the Tennessee Synod members to organize themselves as a conference of the Tennessee Synod, the English (Evangelical) Lutheran Conference of Missouri. [ 2 ] The conference applied for admission to the LCMS as a district in 1887, but was advised to instead form a separate synod because the LCMS was ...
Concordia College (New York), which was part of the LCMS's Concordia University System, ceased offering classes as of August 2021, with a final conferral of degrees in December 2021. A district congregation, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saint Matthew , in Washington Heights, Manhattan , was founded in 1664 and is the oldest congregation ...