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The Protes'tant Conference is a loose association of Lutheran churches and churchworkers in the United States. It was organized in 1927 by former members of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) who had been suspended following an intrasynodical controversy. At its height, the Protes'tant Conference comprised twenty-two local ...
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.
In 1872, the Norwegian Synod had been a co-founder of the Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America, along with the Missouri, Wisconsin, and Ohio synods. The Norwegian Synod soon experienced internal division over questions concerning predestination and conversion, a conflict known as the Predestination Controversy ...
Authority Vested: A Story of Identity and Change in the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmans, 2000. ISBN 0-8028-4457-X; Zimmerman, Paul A. A Seminary in Crisis: The Inside Story of the Preus Fact Finding Committee. St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House, 2007. ISBN 0-7586-1102-1. This book contains two ...
Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio (and Other States) (1818–1930) Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Maryland (1820–1918 / 1918–1962 / 1962–1987) Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa (1854–1930) Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America; Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (1974–1978) Evangelical Lutheran Tennessee Synod
The Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches (ACLC) was established in the early part of the 21st century to meet the needs of Lutheran congregations that departed from the Evangelical Lutheran Synod when they considered a pastor to have been wrongly removed by that body. [3]
September 2–4: Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod is organized; [55] it establishes altar and pulpit fellowship with the LCMS in 1903. [56] 1903 March 2: The Synodical Conference opens Immanuel Lutheran College in Concord, North Carolina, to train Black pastors and teachers.
The conference on May 15–16, 1961, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, was attended by over 400 laymen and pastors who hoped to make progress on their concerns at the synod's upcoming convention in 1962. However, the State of the Synod Conference was not permitted to have a booth at the convention and the issues of concern were not addressed.