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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 ...
New England Synod; New Jersey Synod; North/West Lower Michigan Synod; Northeastern Iowa Synod; Northeastern Ohio Synod; Northern Texas-Northern Louisiana Synod; Northwest Washington Synod; Northwestern Minnesota Synod
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 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)
Lutheran Synod of Buffalo (1845–1930) National Evangelical Lutheran Church; National Lutheran Council (NLC) Norwegian Augustana Synod; Pennsylvania Ministerium (Ministerium of Pennsylvania) (1748–1918) Slovak Zion Synod, exists as one of 65 synods of the ELCA; Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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. He was re-elected to a four-year term at the 1991 ELCA Churchwide Assembly in Orlando, Florida. Chilstrom was the church's chief ecumenical officer and represented the ...
The ELCA does not have dioceses in the usual sense. However, its "synods" increasingly closely resemble a diocese in all but name, particularly since the decision in 2000 to appoint all new bishops within the historic apostolic succession, with the laying-on of hands by at least three current bishops.
Northfield, Minnesota: 1874: ELCA: 3072-$527.2 million Susquehanna University: Selinsgrove, Pennsylvania: ... Norwegian Synod Founded as a non-sectarian school, ...