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The district has approximately 127,000baptized members. [1] The Northern Illinois District was formed in 1907 when the Illinois District was divided. District offices are located in River Forest, Illinois, on the campus of Concordia University Chicago. Delegates from each congregation meet in convention every three years to elect the district ...
The Canadian district was split off three years later in 1878/1879, and eventually in 1988, the three Missouri Synod districts in the Dominion of Canada there were separated to join and form the new independent denomination of the Lutheran Church-Canada. The old Northern district was renamed the Michigan district in 1881. Western: 1854
Map. Website. selc.lcms.org. The SELC District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS). It is one of the Synod's two non-geographical districts, along with the English District, and has its origins in the congregations of the former Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELC), which merged with the LCMS in 1971.
The District also carries out campus ministry at two colleges and supports an elementary school in East St. Louis. [6] The Southern Illinois District was formed in 1907 when the Illinois District was divided. District offices are located in Belleville, Illinois. Delegates from each congregation meet in convention every three years to elect the ...
The Central Illinois District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and covers the middle third of the state of Illinois; the rest of the state is divided between the Northern Illinois District and the Southern Illinois District. The Central Illinois District includes approximately 159 congregations and ...
List of ELCA synods. A map of the nine ELCA regions. Note that the Slovak Zion Synod falls under Region 7 and the Bahamas and the Caribbean under Region 9. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council ...
1,451 in 1916. The Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of America, commonly known as the General Synod, was a historical Lutheran denomination in the United States. Established in 1820, it was the first national Lutheran body to be formed in the U.S. and by 1918 had become the third largest Lutheran group in the nation.
The North American Lutheran Church (NALC) is a Lutheran denomination with over 420 congregations in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, counting more than 142,000 baptized members. The NALC believes all doctrines should and must be judged by the teaching of the Christian Scriptures (the Bible), in keeping with the historic Lutheran ...