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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 LCMS president, C. F. W. Walther, urged the Tennessee Synod members to organize themselves as a conference of the Tennessee Synod, the English (Evangelical) Lutheran Conference of Missouri. [ 2 ] The conference applied for admission to the LCMS as a district in 1887, but was advised to instead form a separate synod because the LCMS was ...
The Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Foundation is the investment and trust administration corporation for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). The LCMS Foundation serves the LCMS, the Concordia University System, and the congregations, schools, seminaries, districts, Recognized Service Organizations, and other affiliated service organizations of the LCMS.
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 29 – May 9: 23rd synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church and Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne. [17] St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Concordia, Missouri, gives St. John's College to the synod. [44] Mission work begins in England, organized as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England in 1954. [53] 1897
The district now includes approximately 52 congregations and missions (the fewest of any LCMS district), subdivided into 4 circuits, as well as 13 preschools and 4 elementary schools. As of 2021, baptized membership in district congregations was 13,876, and communicant membership was 11,239.
Website www .txdistlcms .org The Texas District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the state of Texas with the exception of El Paso County , which is in the Rocky Mountain District .
Website www .mnnlcms .org /home The Minnesota North District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the northern two-thirds of the state of Minnesota ; it also includes two congregations in Wisconsin and one in South Dakota.