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Synod Name Area Bishop Membership Congregations Alaska Synod Alaska: Timothy Oslovich [2] 7,806 [3] 30 [3] Northwest Washington Synod Northwest Washington: Shelley Bryan Wee [4] 29,340 [5] 98 [5] Southwestern Washington Synod Southwest Washington: Richard E. Jaech [6] 23,365 [7] 84 [7] Northwest Intermountain Synod Eastern Washington, Idaho ...
Saint Paul Area Synod; Sierra Pacific Synod; Slovak Zion Synod; South Carolina Synod; South-Central Synod of Wisconsin; Southeastern Pennsylvania Synod; Southern Ohio Synod; Southwestern Minnesota Synod; Southwestern Washington Synod
First Lutheran Church is a Lutheran church in Winthrop, Minnesota. The church is easily recognized by its tall steeple and its large stained glass windows. The church is a member of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), belonging to the Minnesota Valley Conference of the Southwestern Minnesota Synod. [2]
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)
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.
On August 21, 2009, the ELCA's Churchwide Assembly in Minneapolis voted to allow congregations to call and ordain gays and lesbians in committed monogamous relationships to serve as clergy. [32] By a vote of 559 to 451, delegates approved a resolution declaring that the church would find a way for people in "publicly accountable, lifelong ...
He held that position for eight years before accepting a call to be senior pastor of First Lutheran Church, St. Peter, Minnesota, in 1970. In 1976, Chilstrom became bishop of the Minnesota Synod. Chilstrom was the first ELCA presiding bishop, elected to his post at the church's constituting convention in April 1987.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) is a US-based Protestant Christian denomination based in Mankato, Minnesota. It describes itself as a conservative , Confessional Lutheran body. The ELS has 130 congregations and has missions in Peru, Chile, India, South Korea, Ukraine, Czech Republic, and Latvia.