Timeline of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod

The following is a timeline of significant events in the history of the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.

19th century

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  • 1838
    • Martin Stephan, several pastors, and 600 to 700 German Lutherans from Saxony embark on four ships in November to emigrate to the United States to establish a colony in which they can freely practice their religion.[1] Stephan is declared to be the group's bishop during the voyage.[2]
  • 1839
    • January 19: The Saxons begin landing in St. Louis, Missouri.[3]
    • The Saxons purchase acreage in Perry County, Missouri, and Stephan and part of the group relocate to it.[4]
    • Stephan is accused of having sexual affairs with women of the colony and is deposed and exiled to the Illinois side of the Mississippi River.[5]
    • The loss of Stephan causes many to wonder if they are a legitimate church. The Altenburg debate between Carl Vehlse and C. F. W. Walther on these questions results in most members remaining and Walther eventually becoming the leader.[6]
    • December 9: Luther College/Altenburg Seminary holds its first classes in the "log cabin college" in Perry County.[7]
  • 1840
    • F. C. D. Wyneken's Distress of the German Lutherans in North America, advocating for missionaries to be sent, is published in Germany.[8]
  • 1841
  • 1842
    • August 5: Löhe sends the first two of what will eventually be 80 missionaries. These missionaries establish congregations in Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana.[10]
  • 1844
    • Der Lutheraner, with Walther as editor, is first published.[11]
  • 1845
  • 1846
  • 1847
    • April 26 – May 6: Twelve pastors representing 14 congregations meet at German Evangelical Lutheran Church (First St. Paul's) in Chicago and form the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States (Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten) with C. F. W. Walther as the first president.[16][17]
    • Kirchen-Gesangbuch für Evangelish-Lutherische Gemeinden (Church Hymn Book for Evangelical Lutheran Congregations), is published by Walther's congregation, Trinity, in St. Louis. The synod assumed responsibility for publishing it in 1861.[18][19]
    • Löhe gives Concordia Theological Seminary to the synod despite differences on the doctrine of the ministry.[9]
    • December: The Altenburg Seminary relocates from Perry County to St. Louis.[20]
  • 1848
  • 1849
  • 1850
  • 1851
  • 1852
    • June 23 – July 3: Sixth synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
  • 1853
  • 1854
    • June 21 – July 1: Eighth synodical convention meets at Immanuel Lutheran Church in St. Louis and, due to rapid growth, splits the synod into four administrative district synods (Central, Eastern, Northern, and Western) and decides to hold synodical conventions every three years.[17][21]
  • 1855
    • January: The congregations and pastors of St. Stephen's (Walker Point), Trinity, and St. John's open a teachers seminary in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.[22]
    • Lehre und Wehre, with Walther as editor, is first published.[11]
  • 1857
  • 1859
    • Disagreements about ordination and the office of the ministry cause the Buffalo Synod to excommunicate the Missouri Synod.[26]
  • 1860
    • October 10–20: Tenth synodical convention meets at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis.[17]
  • 1861
    • Concordia Theological Seminary relocates from Fort Wayne to share the campus of Concordia Seminary in St. Louis so that its students would not be subject to the draft for military service in Indiana.[27] Concordia College relocates from St. Louis to Fort Wayne to use the facilities there.[28]
  • 1863
    • June 1–11: 11th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
  • 1864
    • October 19–29: 12th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne and elects C. F. W. Walther as the third president of the LCMS.[17]
    • After being housed in several different locations in Fort Wayne, the teachers seminary relocates to Addison, Illinois, as the Addison Teachers Seminary.[29]
  • 1866
    • October 31 – November 10: 13th synodical convention meets at Trinity Lutheran Church in St. Louis.[17]
    • Schism within the Buffalo Synod leads to a majority of its pastors (12) joining the Missouri Synod.[26]
  • 1868
  • 1869
  • 1872
  • 1874
    • October 14–23: 16th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • The Northwestern District is separated from the Northern District.[21]
  • 1875
  • 1877
    • Mission work among Black people in the U.S. is begun by the Synodical Conference with J. F. Doeschler as the first missionary.[30]
  • 1878
  • 1880
    • May: The Illinois Synod merges into the LCMS Illinois District.[38]
    • Concordia Publishing House begins publishing the 22-volume Dr. Martin Luthers Sämmtliche Schriften (Dr. Martin Luther's Complete Writings) in German. Known as the "St. Louis Edition", the final volume is issued in 1910.[39]
  • 1881
    • May 11–21: 18th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • The Ohio Synod withdraws from the Synodical Conference and from fellowship with the LCMS as a result of the Predestinarian Controversy.[40]
    • September: The Illinois, the Wisconsin, and the Minnesota and Dakota districts open Concordia College in Milwaukee to give pre-seminary training to prospective pastors.[41]
    • The Lutheran Church of St. Matthew in Manhattan, New York, establishes Concordia Progymnasium as a feeder school for Concordia Seminary.[42]
  • 1882
  • 1883
    • The Norwegian Synod withdraws from the Synodical Conference as the Predestinarian Controversy threatens to split it internally.[40]
    • St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Concordia, Missouri, opens St. Paul's College, initially as a high school.[44]
  • 1884
    • May 7–17: 19th synodical convention meets in the Concordia Seminary Aula in St. Louis.[17]
  • 1886
    • The Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod of Pennsylvania and Other States, which had split from the Ohio Synod in the aftermath of the Predestinarian Controversy and joined the Synodical Conference in 1882, merges into the LCMS.[45][40]
  • 1887
    • May 4–14: 20th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • The Kansas District and the California and Oregon District are separated from the Western District.[21]
    • Concordia College in Milwaukee is transferred from the founding districts to the synod itself.[41]
  • 1888
  • 1889
    • The English Synod publishes the Evangelical Lutheran Hymn Book that had been compiled by August Crull of Concordia College in Fort Wayne, Indiana.[46]
  • 1890
    • June 25 – July 3: 21st synodical convention meets at Trinity Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.[17]
    • The English Synod joins the Synodical Conference.[45]
  • 1892
    • The English Synod takes control of Concordia College in Conover.[47]
  • 1893
    • February: Concordia Progymnasium purchases land in Unionville, New York, for a new campus.[48]
    • April 25 – May 6: 22nd synodical convention meets at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis.[17]
    • May 23: The Walther League is organized at Trinity Lutheran Church in Buffalo, New York, for young people in the Synodical Conference.[49]
    • September: St. John's College opens in Winfield, Kansas. Consisting of a high school academy and a junior college, it is operated by the English Synod.[50]
  • 1894
    • June 2: The LCMS files incorporation papers as the result of financial embezzlement at Concordia Publishing House.[51]
    • November 18: The Evangelical Lutheran School Teachers Seminary (evangelische-lutherische Schullehrer-Seminar) is dedicated in Seward, Nebraska, becoming the synod's second such school.[52]
  • 1896
    • April 29 – May 9: 23rd synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church and Immanuel Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Concordia, Missouri, gives St. John's College to the synod.[44]
    • Mission work begins in England, organized as the Evangelical Lutheran Church of England in 1954.[53]
  • 1897
    • The synod has 1,564 congregations, 1,986 pastors, and 687,334 members.[54]
  • 1899
    • April 26 – May 6: 24th synodical convention meets at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis and elects Franz August Otto Pieper as the fifth president of the LCMS.[17]
    • The California and Oregon District is split into the California and Nevada District and the Oregon and Washington District.[21]

20th century

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  • 1900
    • Missionary work among German-speaking immigrants in Brazil begins.[21]
  • 1902
    • June 4–14: 25th synodical convention meets at Trinity Lutheran Church in Milwaukee.[17]
    • September 2–4: Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod is organized;[55] it establishes altar and pulpit fellowship with the LCMS in 1903.[56]
  • 1903
  • 1904
    • Brazil District is established.[21]
  • 1905
    • June 21 – July 1: 26th synodical convention meets at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Detroit, Michigan.[17]
    • Missionary work in Argentina begins as part of the Brazil District.[21]
    • Concordia College opens in Portland, Oregon, as a high school for students preparing to become Lutheran pastors and teachers.[59]
  • 1906
    • The South Dakota District is separated from the Minnesota and Dakota District, and the Texas District from the Southern District.[21][35]
    • St. Paul's College in Concordia adds its junior college program.[44]
    • September: The California and Nevada District opens California Concordia College in Oakland, California, as a high school.[60]
  • 1907
  • 1908
    • May 13–23: 27th synodical convention meets at St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • The Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod joins the Synodical Conference.[56]
  • 1909
  • 1910
    • January 4: Concordia Progymnasium begins classes at its new Bronxville, New York, campus.[61]
    • The North Dakota and Montana District is separated from the Minnesota and Dakota District.[21]
  • 1911
    • May 10–20: 28th synodical convention meets at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis and elects Friedrich Pfotenhauer as the sixth president of the LCMS.[17]
    • The English Synod merges into the LCMS as the English District, bringing with it Concordia College in Conover and St. John's College in Winfield.[33]
    • The LCMS assumes responsibility for publishing The Lutheran Witness.[43]
  • 1912
  • 1913
  • 1914
    • May 6–16: 29th synodical convention meets at St. Luke's Lutheran Church in Chicago.[17]
  • 1916
  • 1917
    • June 20–29: 30th synodical convention meets at Plankinton Hall in Milwaukee.[17]
    • The synod drops the word German from its name to become the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and other States.[58]
    • Twelve laymen attending the convention form the Lutheran Laymen's League to raise funds to pay off the synod's $100,000 debt. The league later raise $2.7 million for a pension fund for pastors and teachers.[63]
    • The synod takes over the work of the China Mission Society.[58]
  • 1918
    • Concordia Progymnasium in Bronxville changes its name to Concordia Collegiate Institute.[64]
    • California Concordia College adds junior college classes.[60]
  • 1919
    • The Lutheran Deaconess Association is organized.[58]
  • 1920
    • June 16–25: 31st synodical convention meets at Harmonie Hall in Detroit.[17]
  • 1921
    • The Colorado District is separated from the Kansas District, and the Alberta and British Columbia District and the Manitoba and Saskatchewan District are separated from the Minnesota District.[21]
    • The California and Nevada District gives control of California Concordia College to the synod.[60]
  • 1922
    • The Nebraska District is split into the Northern Nebraska and the Southern Nebraska districts.[21]
    • The Synodical Conference opens Alabama Luther College in Selma, Alabama.[65]
    • The synod has 3,073 pastors and 1,041,514 members.[66]
  • 1923
    • June 20–29: 32nd synodical convention meets at the Concordia College chapel in Fort Wayne.[17]
    • September 13: Concordia College in St. Paul, Minnesota, opens with its first class of high school freshmen.[67]
  • 1924
  • 1925
    • The Synodical Conference closes Luther College in New Orleans and redirects its support to Alabama Luther College.[69]
  • 1926
    • June 9–18: 33rd synodical convention meets at Holy Cross Lutheran Church in St. Louis.[17]
    • Concordia Seminary moves to its current campus in the St. Louis suburb of Clayton.[58]
    • Lutheran Concordia College of Texas opens as a four-year high school in Austin, Texas, to prepare young men for the seminary.[70]
  • 1927
  • 1929
    • June 19–28: 34th synodical convention meets in the Concordia Teachers College auditorium in River Forest.[17]
    • The Chicago Theses, formulated during merger discussions with the Ohio, Iowa, and Buffalo synods, are rejected by the convention of the LCMS.[71]
  • 1930
  • 1932
    • June 15–24: 35th synodical convention meets in the Concordia College auditorium in Milwaukee.[17]
    • The Brief Statement of the Doctrinal Position of the Missouri Synod is adopted by the convention.[71]
    • The Thiensville Theses are accepted by the faculties of Concordia Seminary and the Wisconsin Synod's Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary.[58]
  • 1934
    • Gamma Delta is founded in Chicago as an international association of Lutheran students.[73]
  • 1935
    • April 16: A fire destroys the main building of Concordia College in Conover, leading to the closure of the school.[74]
    • June 19–28: 36th synodical convention meets in the Cleveland Public Auditorium Convention Hall in Cleveland and elects John William Behnken as the seventh president of the LCMS.[17]
    • September: The non-seminary track high school courses at Concordia College in Fort Wayne are split off and merged with that city's Luther Institute to form what is now Concordia Lutheran High School.[75]
    • The synod has 4,224 congregations, 3,605 pastors, and 1,230,705 members.[76]
  • 1936
    • The Iowa District is split into the Iowa East and Iowa West districts.[21]
    • Mission work begins in Nigeria which eventually becomes the Lutheran Church of Nigeria.[77]
  • 1937
    • Concordia Publishing House begins publishing a monthly devotional booklet that, in 1948, is renamed Portals of Prayer.[78]
  • 1938
    • June 15–24: 37th synodical convention meets at the St. Louis Municipal Auditorium with the theme "Jubilee Convention".[17]
    • The LCMS and the ALC agree on the Brief Statement and the ALC's Declaration, but no further action on a merger results.[79]
  • 1939
  • 1940
  • 1941
    • June 18–27: 38th synodical convention meets in the Concordia College gymnasium in Fort Wayne with the theme 'Wyneken Memorial Convention".[17]
    • The Lutheran Hymnal is published by Concordia Publishing House under the authority of the Synodical Conference.[81]
  • 1942
    • July 7–8: The Lutheran Women's Missionary League is established as an official auxiliary of the synod at a meeting at St. Stephan's Lutheran Church in Chicago. The formation of district and regional grouping of congregational women's societies starting in the 1920s had led the synod 1941 convention to urge its creation.[82]
    • The Walther League Building, paid for by the League itself, opens in Chicago.[49]
    • The Lutheran Education Association is organized.[71]
  • 1944
  • 1945
    • The North Dakota and Montana District is split into the North Dakota District and the Montana District.[21][35]
    • A Statement of the Forty-four is issued by 44 theologians and leaders criticizing the synod's approach toward other Lutheran church bodies, provoking immediate response for others in the synod.[83]
  • 1946
  • 1947
    • July 20–29: 40th synodical convention meets at the Palmer House Grand Ballroom in Chicago with the theme "Centennial Convention".[17]
    • The convention adopts a shorter name: The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod.[58]
    • Mission work begins in Guatemala, later organized as the Lutheran Church of Guatemala.[58][85]
  • 1948
  • 1949
    • December 5–6: Common Confession, Part I, is unanimously approved by a joint meeting of the Committee on Doctrinal Unity and the ALC's Fellowship Commission, with work to continue on additional topics for Part II.[86]
    • Mission work begins in Hong Kong, eventually becoming the Lutheran Church-Hong Kong Synod.[87]
  • 1950
    • June 21–30: 41st synodical convention meets at the Concordia College gymnasium in Milwaukee.[17]
    • Common Confession, Part I is accepted by both the LCMS and the ALC.[86]
    • Concordia College in Portland adds a junior college program for men.[59]
    • The synod has 4,430 congregations, 4,621 pastors, and 1,674,901 members.[76]
  • 1951
  • 1952
    • September: This is the Life television drama series first airs and runs until 1988.[63][58]
    • National Parent-Teacher League is organized as a Lutheran counterpart to the National Parent Teacher Association.[58]
  • 1953
    • February 9: The joint meeting of the LCMS Committee on Doctrinal Unity and the ALC Fellowship Commission unanimously approves Part 2 of the Common Confession.[86]
    • June 17–26: 42nd synodical convention meets at the Music Hall in Houston, Texas.[17]
    • The LCMS receives a construction permit from the FCC to build KFUO-TV (channel 30) in St. Louis, but surrenders the permit in February 1956 before beginning construction after deciding that a UHF station would not be viable.[90][91]
  • 1954
    • The ALC accepts the Common Confession, Part 2.[86]
  • 1955
    • The Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) breaks fellowship with the LCMS due to the latter's growing relationship to the ALC.[92]
    • Concordia Publishing House begins the publication of Volumes 1–30 of Luther's Works: The American Edition, finishing in 1976.[93]
    • Lutheran Concordia College of Texas changes its name to Concordia Lutheran College.[70]
  • 1956
  • 1957
  • 1958
  • 1959
  • 1960
  • 1961
    • The WELS breaks fellowship with the LCMS.[92]
    • June 30: Immanuel Lutheran College is closed by the Synodical Conference, with Black students going to LCMS institutions thereafter.[101]
  • 1962
  • 1963
  • 1964
  • 1965
    • June 16–25: 46th synodical convention meets at Cobo Hall in Detroit with the theme "Even So I Send You".[17]
  • 1966
    • The Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship is formed with the American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in America to create a new hymnal for use by most Lutherans in North America.[81]
    • Mission work in Taiwan becomes the independent China Evangelical Lutheran Church in fellowship with the LCMS.[105]
  • 1967
  • 1968
    • Concordia High School, the high school department of Concordia College, St. Paul, separates from the college and merges with St. Paul Lutheran High School to form Concordia Academy.[67]
    • The Lutheran Synod of Mexico becomes a partner church in altar and pulpit fellowship.[80]
  • 1969
    • May: John Tietjen is chosen to be the next president of Concordia Seminary.[107]
    • July 11–18: 48th synodical convention meets at the Currigan Exhibition Hall in Denver, Colorado, with the theme "The Edifying Work" and elects J. A. O. Preus II as the ninth president of the LCMS.[17]
    • The convention establishes altar and pulpit fellowship with the second American Lutheran Church.[99]
    • Concordia Publishing House issues the Worship Supplement to The Lutheran Hymnal.[81]
    • Concordia Collegiate Institute closes its preparatory high school and changes its name to Concordia College.[64]
  • 1970
  • 1971
  • 1972
    • September: President Preus mails his report on the results of the Fact Finding Committee, known as the Blue Book, to all congregations and pastors in the synod.[115]
  • 1973
    • January: The Concordia Seminary Board of Control rejects the conclusions of the Blue Book and instead, commends all the faculty members as faithful to Scripture and the Lutheran confessions.[116]
    • June: California Concordia College closes.[117]
    • July 6–13: the 50th synodical convention meets at the Rivergate Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana, with the theme "Ever Only All for Thee".[17]
    • The convention condemns the teaching of the faculty majority at Concordia Seminary[118] and elects more conservative members to the Board of Control.
    • August: Supporters of the seminary faculty majority form Evangelical Lutherans in Mission (ELIM) to support them.[119]
    • August: The Board of Control suspends Tietjen. The suspension is then vacated while efforts are made to resolve the issues, but is reissued on January 20, 1974.[120]
  • 1974
    • February 19: Most of the faculty and students of Concordia Seminary stage a walkout to protest Tietjen's suspension, with classes for Seminex (Concordia Seminary in Exile) beginning the next day at facilities provided by Eden Seminary and Saint Louis University.[121]
  • 1975
  • 1976
  • 1977
    • July 15–22; 52nd synodical convention meets at the Dallas Convention Center in Dallas, Texas, with the theme "That We May Grow".[17]
    • The LCMS convention declares a state of protest in the fellowship agreement with the ALC as the ALC moves to establish closer ties to the LCA.[126]
    • Synod president Preus removes four LCMS district presidents from office because they allowed graduates of Seminex to be assigned as pastors in their districts in violation of the LCMS bylaws.[127]
    • The California and Nevada District is renamed as the California–Nevada–Hawaii District.[128]
    • Concordia College in Portland becomes a four-year college.[59]
    • Concordia Senior College ceases operations.[129]
    • The Lutheran Church-Hong Kong Synod becomes a partner church with altar and pulpit fellowship.[87]
  • 1978
    • The Lutheran Book of Worship, developed by the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, is published, but the LCMS declines to authorize it for use in its congregations.[81]
    • Mission work begins in Haiti.[130]
  • 1979
    • July 6–12: 53rd synodical convention meets at the Alfonso J. Cervantes Convention Center in St. Louis with the theme "God Opens Doors...".[17]
    • Concordia Teachers College in River Forest changes its name to Concordia College as it expands its course offerings.[131]
  • 1980
    • The Brazil District becomes the independent Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil.[21]
    • Concordia Lutheran College in Austin closes its high school program and becomes a four-year college.[70]
    • The synod has 5,694 congregations, 7,926 pastors, and 2,625,650 members.[76]
  • 1981
  • 1982
  • 1983
  • 1984
  • 1986
    • July 18–25: 56th synodical convention meets at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana, with the theme "Alive in Christ".[17]
    • St. John's College in Winfield closes at the end of the spring semester.[111][137]
    • St. Paul's College in Concordia closes at the end of the spring semester, but the high school continues to operate as St. Paul Lutheran High School, the only residential high school owned by the LCMS.[137]
  • 1987
  • 1988
  • 1989
    • July 7–14: 57th synodical convention meets at the Century II Convention Center in Wichita, Kansas, with the theme "Tell Everyone What HE Has Done".[17]
    • The Southern California District is renamed as the Pacific Southwest District.[140]
    • The LCMS is given radio station KICX-AM in McCook, Nebraska, and changes its call sign to KNGN in April 1990. The station airs much of the KFUO programming, but the synod turns it over to local operators in 2001 due to the cost of running it.[141]
    • The Walther League is officially disbanded.[49]
  • 1990
    • Concordia College in Mequon changes its name to Concordia University Wisconsin to reflect its advanced degree programs.[133]
    • Concordia College in River Forest changes its name to Concordia University to reflect its advanced degree programs.[142]
    • The synod has 5,296 congregations, 8,301 pastors, and 2,602,849 members.[76]
  • 1992
    • July 10–17: 58th synodical convention meets at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with the theme "With Great Boldness...Tell Everyone What He Has Done!" and elects Alvin L. Barry as the 11th president of the LCMS.[17]
    • The Lutheran Laymen's League changes its name to Lutheran Hour Ministries.[63]
  • 1993
    • Christ College Irvine changes its name to Concordia University Irvine to reflect its advanced degree programs and its membership in the Concordia University System.[125]
  • 1995
  • 1997
  • 1998

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References

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Footnotes

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  2. ^ Forster 1953, p. 192.
  3. ^ Forster 1953, p. 203.
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