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Upper Arlington Lutheran Church (UALC) is an American multi-site Lutheran megachurch located in the northwestern Columbus suburbs of Upper Arlington and Hilliard, Ohio. It was founded in 1956 as a Lutheran mission by the former American Lutheran Church (now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ).
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is a mainline Protestant church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of December 31, 2023, it has approximately 2.79 million baptized members in 8,498 congregations. [3]
Current seminaries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA): Luther Seminary (Saint Paul, Minnesota) Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago; United Lutheran Seminary (Gettysburg and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University, an ELCA University
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary (Columbia, South Carolina): merged with Lenoir–Rhyne University; Luther Seminary (St. Paul, Minnesota)
In 1988, after only 28 years of existence, the second ALC body merged with the eastern-based Lutheran Church in America (which itself was a 1962 union of four smaller various ethnic-based synods) and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (which was a theological split from the Missouri Synod in 1974–1976) to form the current ...
Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church (previously known as Trinity German Evangelical Lutheran Church) is a historic Lutheran church at 404 S. Third Street in Columbus, Ohio. It was built in 1856 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.
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 ...
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 officers at its Synod Assembly to oversee the spiritual and organizational activities of its member congregations. [1]