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The Synodical Conference was founded at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a member at that time of the Wisconsin Synod.. In October 1870 the Ohio Synod contacted the Illinois, Missouri, Norwegian, and Wisconsin synods to see if they would be interested in a union of Midwestern confessional synods.
The OLCC consists of independent Lutheran congregations who are united in doctrine and practice. It has no political structure, treasury, or form of government. The pastoral conference has a chairman who serves as a point of contact for outside groups and congregations.
Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North America (ELCM) is a Lutheran church body based in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Currently the ELCM has active congregations in Pennsylvania, [1] New York, and Virginia; as well as mission efforts across the United States. The ELCM has fellowship agreements with Lutheran bodies in Kenya ...
The Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA (LMS-USA) is a small Lutheran Christian denomination based in the United States. Its congregations are mostly located in the Upper Midwest , and the church body maintains its official headquarters in Indianapolis , Indiana .
The Concordia Lutheran Conference (CLC) is a small organization of Lutheran churches in the United States which formed in 1956. [1] It was a reorganization of some of the churches of the Orthodox Lutheran Conference (OLC), which had been formed in September 1951, in Okabena, Minnesota, [2] following a break with Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).
Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC) is an association of Lutheran congregations located primarily in the United States. It describes itself as an affiliation of autonomous Lutheran churches and not a denomination. [4] It began in 2001 in response to some liberal views of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
The encyclopedia of the Lutheran Church (3 vol 1965) vol 1 and 3 online free; Brauer, James Leonard and Fred L. Precht, eds. Lutheran Worship: History and Practice (1993) Granquist, Mark. Lutherans in America: A New History (2015) Meyer, Carl S. Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (1986)
The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) is an international fellowship of 34 Confessional Lutheran church bodies. The CELC was founded in 1993 in Oberwesel, Germany with an initial thirteen church bodies.