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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 Missouri District is home to the synod's headquarters as well as Concordia Seminary, both of which are located in or just outside St. Louis. The district includes approximately 301 congregations and missions, subdivided into 28 circuits , as well as 52 preschools, 56 elementary schools , and 9 high schools.
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 ...
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.
St. John's Lutheran Church (Conover, North Carolina) St. Mark's Lutheran Church (Elberta, Alabama) Saint Mark's Lutheran School and Church (Milford, Ohio) Saint Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church (Fort Wayne, Indiana) Saint Stephen Evangelical Lutheran Church of Milwaukee; Salem Lutheran Church (Farrar, Missouri) St. Paul's Lutheran Church ...
Pages in category "Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod districts" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Meyer, Carl S. Moving Frontiers: Readings in the History of the Lutheran Church Missouri Synod (1986) Roeber, A. G. Palatines, Liberty, and Property: German Lutherans in Colonial British America (1998)
Saint Lorenz Lutheran Church in Frankenmuth, Michigan; the largest congregation in the Michigan District. The Michigan District is one of the 35 districts of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), and comprises the U.S. state of Michigan with the exception of the western half of the Upper Peninsula, which is in the North Wisconsin District.