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Contents. 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 ...
Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. United States and 24 other countries. The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod ( WELS ), also referred to simply as the Wisconsin Synod, is an American Confessional Lutheran denomination of Christianity. Characterized as theologically conservative, it was founded in 1850 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin .
The Wisconsin Synod congregations continued to use the old campus for their school, Wisconsin Lutheran High School, until their new building opened in September 1959. Twenty-seven Missouri Synod congregations formed "The Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee" on January 23, 1952.
Paul Stumme-Diers (born 1960) was a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Greater Milwaukee Synod . Born in 1960 in Waverly, Iowa, Stumme-Diers is the fourth of five children of Herman and Dorothy Diers. He was baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Waverly and graduated from Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School.
On May 20, 1921 St. James congregation was officially organized. When the seminary relocated, the church moved its chapel for a third time, to the east side of the intersection, where the church is situated today. After this move, a 16' x 24' school room was added to the chapel in 1922 at a cost of $1,204.44. Though the building was completed ...
Twenty-seven Missouri Synod congregations formed "The Lutheran High School Association of Greater Milwaukee" on January 23, 1952. The association obtained approximately 28 acres (11 ha) of land at 97th Street and West Grantosa Drive for the new Milwaukee Lutheran High School. The cost was projected to be about $2 million, and pledges for that ...
St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Gothic Revival -styled church built in 1889 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by a congregation with German roots. In 1992, the church and associated buildings were listed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] It is also designated a Milwaukee Landmark.
Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary ( WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It is located in Mequon, Wisconsin . The campus consists of 22 buildings, including a library that has over 58,000 volumes and a collection of rare pre-18th century theological books.