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  2. Evangelical Lutheran Church in America - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC) was a Lutheran denomination that existed from 1917, when it was founded as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (NLCA), until 1960, when it joined two other church bodies to form the second American Lutheran Church.

  4. Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of ...

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    The Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America, commonly known as the General Synod, was a historical Lutheran denomination in the United States. . Established in 1820, it was the first national Lutheran body to be formed in the U.S. and by 1918 had become the third largest Lutheran group in the nat

  5. American Evangelical Lutheran Church - Wikipedia

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    In 1872, Grundtvigian pastors and lay people from Denmark formed a Church Mission Society. The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was started in 1874 and formally organized as a synod in Neenah, Wisconsin, in 1878. The church's official founder was Adam Dan, the grandfather of American historian Henry Steele Commager. A constitution ...

  6. United Evangelical Lutheran Church - Wikipedia

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    The Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America (or North Church) was formed in 1894 when seminary president Kristian Anker and professor Peter Sørensen Vig, along with a number of pastor and congregations, left the Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in America over theological differences.

  7. Evangelical Lutheran Church - Wikipedia

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    Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia (present also outside Europe) Latvian Evangelical Lutheran Church Abroad; Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lithuania; Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Republic of Moldova; Evangelical Lutheran Church in the Kingdom of the Netherlands; Church of Norway, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway; Evangelical ...

  8. Evangelical Lutheran Synod - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelical Lutheran Synod traces its history back to 1853 when the Norwegian Synod was organized in the Midwestern United States. They practiced "fellowship", a form of full communion, with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) during the 1850s and 1860s.

  9. Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa - Wikipedia

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    The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States, commonly known as the Iowa Synod, was founded on August 24, 1854, at St. Sebald in Clayton County, Iowa. It adopted a constitution and its name ( German : Deutsche evangelisch-lutherische Synode von Iowa ), in 1864. [ 1 ]