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The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, [3] 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.
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 ...
April 26 – May 7: 15th synodical convention meets at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis. [17] July 10–16: The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America is formed with the Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, Norwegian, Ohio, and Wisconsin synods agreeing to be in full altar and pulpit fellowship.
16. 17 Anthony of Egypt, renewer of the church, c. 356 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. Pachomius, renewer of the church, 346 (Commemoration) W – ELCA. 18 Confession of Peter (W) Week of Prayer for Christian Unity Begins - ELCA. 19 Henry, Bishop of Uppsala, missionary to Finland, martyr, 1156 (Commemoration) R – ELCA.
The Missouri District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the state of Missouri. Five Missouri congregations are in the non-geographic English District, and one congregation in St. Louis is in the SELC District. The Missouri District is home to the synod's headquarters as well as Concordia ...
The Southeastern District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). It encompasses Washington, D.C., and the states of Delaware, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia, as well Maryland with the exception of Garrett County at its western end; it also includes York and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania.
Map. Website. selc.lcms.org. The SELC District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). It is one of the Synod's two non-geographical districts, along with the English District, and has its origins in the congregations of the former Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELC), which merged with the LCMS in 1971.
The Southern Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the southern third of the state of Illinois; the rest of the state is divided between the Northern Illinois District and the Central Illinois District. [1] In addition, one congregation in Granite City is in the non-geographic ...