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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 Ohio District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the states of Ohio and West Virginia, as well as north eastern Kentucky [1] (the remainder of Kentucky is divided between the Indiana District and the Mid-South District).
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 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 ...
Saint James Lutheran Church and School (Lafayette, Indiana) Saint John Evangelical Lutheran Church (New Fane, Wisconsin) St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Corning, Missouri) St. John's Lutheran Church and School; St. John's Lutheran Church (Orange, California) St. John's Lutheran Church and School (New Boston, Michigan)
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 ...
Pages in category "Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod districts" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
The Missouri District is home to the synod's headquarters as well as Concordia Seminary, both of which are located in or just outside St. Louis. The district includes approximately 301 congregations and missions, subdivided into 28 circuits , as well as 52 preschools, 56 elementary schools , and 9 high schools.