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...

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...

adult daughters, Rebeckah and Susannah. List of ELCA synods Timeline of women's ordination "Installation of ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton". October...

Augustana Synod Pennsylvania Ministerium (Ministerium of Pennsylvania) (1748–1918) Slovak Zion Synod, exists as one of 65 synods of the ELCA Synod of the Norwegian...

the 1988 merger that formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). After splitting with the American Lutheran Church in 1987, the AALC originally...

of establishing state synods. These state synods were to organize into two or three larger synods, one for the east (corresponding to the Ohio Synod)...

with the other Lutheran synods until 1966. It underwent a name change in 1944, to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA). One group broke away...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern...

America (ELCA), Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ (LCMC), and the Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC). The following is a list of Lutheran...

noting that it stands between the more liberal ELCA and the more conservative Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and other Lutheran church bodies in North...

calendars of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in their present forms are listed below, as...

DeJong 1968, pp. 220-. "The Opinions of the Remonstrants (1618)" (PDF). "Mission, Vision, and Confession". "ELCA Constitution, Chapter 2" (PDF). Archived...

is a list of higher education Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States: Affiliations: CLC = Church of the Lutheran Confession ELCA = Evangelical...

Seminary is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the largest seminary of the ELCA. It also accepts...

of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy or Theology. The seminary serves all of the ELCA and has specific ties to Regions 1 and 2 and the eleven synods of the...

The LCMS Synodical President Gerald Kieschnick was present to register the objections of the LCMS to the ordination of homosexuals at the ELCA Churchwide...

Joint Synod existed from 1818 until its merger in 1930 with two smaller German-language regional synods (the Iowa Synod and the Buffalo Synod) into the...

Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) use the Lutheran Book of Worship and the 1982 Lutheran Worship. Elements unique to the ELCA have...

Church in America List of eparchies of the Serbian Orthodox Church List of ELCA synods Districts of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod List of dioceses, deaneries...

government of a bishop (see Archbishop of Uppsala). Other Lutheran bodies and synods that have dioceses and bishops include the Church of Denmark, the...

Synod (WELS) with 344,000 members. The differences between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS)...

Larson 2022– The formation of The AALC in opposition to the ELCA is recounted in the book, To Tell the Truth: A History of The AALC, 1987-2012 compiled...

States. While it is in its twenty-seventh printing and widely used by the ELCA and the ELCIC, the LBW was replaced in October 2006 as the primary worship...

America (ELCA). In 2010, Evangelical left the ELCA to become a charter congregation of the newly formed North American Lutheran Church. It was listed on the...

Church—Hong Kong Synod Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Lutheran Church of Australia Lutheran Church of Central Africa Malawi Conference Lutheran Church of Central...

According to the Lutheran World Federation list of member churches, thirteen Indonesian Lutheran churches or synods (the latest one added in 2014) associated...

Lutheran Synod (ELS) Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921–1976) List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar Bishops of Hamburg...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Born April Ulring in Decorah, Iowa, on April 22, 1950, Larson was the second of five children. After high school...

Orleans, Miami and New York Mpls-synod.org of the ELCA Mindekirken's listing at the ELCA's Minneapolis Synod web site Mindekirken is centrally located in the...

second largest of the three predecessor bodies of the ELCA, the American Lutheran Church, was a congregationalist body, with national and synod presidents...