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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. [1]
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia University System. Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Evangelical Lutheran Synod, Church of the Lutheran Brethren, also have their own colleges and universities ...
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)
Current seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA): Luther Seminary (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; United Lutheran Seminary (Gettysburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University, an ELCA University
Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches, exists as SELC District of the LCMS; United Evangelical Lutheran Church; United Lutheran Church in America (1918–1962) United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America; United Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in the South (1861–1918)
This is a list of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America colleges and universities: Augsburg University (Minneapolis, Minnesota) Augustana College (Rock Island, Illinois) Augustana University (Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Bethany College (Lindsborg, Kansas) California Lutheran University (Thousand Oaks, California) Capital University (Bexley, Ohio)
Ulrik Vilhelm Koren (1826-1910) - President of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America; Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia. de:Christoph Kähler; Margot Käßmann (b. 1958) - Bishop for the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover.