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Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711 - 1786) - Founder of the Lutheran church in America. Peter Muhlenberg (1746 - 1807) - Clergy, Revolutionary War soldier, US House, US Senate Ishmael Noko (b. 1943)- General secretary of the Lutheran World Federation .
It also created a pension fund for church workers. [4] During the spring of 1917, pastor E. H. Eggers of Immanuel Lutheran Church in Seymour, Indiana, urged Albert Andrew Henry (A.H.) Ahlbrand, a prominent member of the congregation, to write an outline of a business corporation for the synod. Ahlbrand suggested that the synod have one man for ...
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 ...
From 2016 to 2018, Lee led a Lutheran church's Quick Response Team providing chaplain services to law enforcement. [1] Lee graduated from Concordia Theological Seminary in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 1992, and is an ordained pastor of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). As of 2023, he was retired (referred to within LCMS as being on ...
Matthew Carl Harrison (born March 14, 1962, in Sioux City, Iowa) is the 13th and current president of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS). As president, he is the chief ecclesiastical supervisor of the Synod and is responsible for the national program ministries of the LCMS, including the Office of International Mission, which calls and employs some 150 missionaries globally. [1]
The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America (ELDoNA) is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States.There are twenty-eight pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin plus Colombia and the Philippines.
The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia University System. Other denominations such as the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Evangelical Lutheran Synod , Church of the Lutheran Brethren , also have their own colleges and universities.