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The Northern Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern third of the state of Illinois, including the Illinois portions of the Chicago metropolitan area; the rest of the state is divided between the Central Illinois District and the Southern Illinois District.
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [2] is a confessional Lutheran denomination in the United States.With 1.7 million members as of 2022 [4] it is the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States, behind the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
The differences between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) arise from theological, historical, and cultural factors. The LCMS was briefly in fellowship with the former The American Lutheran Church, one of the ELCA predecessor bodies from 1969 to the early 1980s.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University; Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
Redeemer Lutheran Church is a congregation of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) in Elmhurst, Illinois, a western suburb of Chicago.Founded in 1928, there were (as of 2008) 495 baptized members.
Norwegian Synod 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
April 26 – May 6: Twelve pastors representing 14 congregations meet at German Evangelical Lutheran Church (First St. Paul's) in Chicago and form the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten) with C. F. W. Walther as the first president.
From the time of its founding in 1847, for eight years until 1854, the LC-MS held annual synod-wide conventions. However, given the rapid growth in number of confessional Evangelical Lutheran congregations and the large geographic area then covered by the synod in its first decade in the United States, from the States of Iowa in the west, to western New York state in the northeast, and from ...