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The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America ( ELCA) is a mainline Protestant Lutheran church headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA was officially formed on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three Lutheran church bodies. As of 2022, it has approximately 2.9 million baptized members in 8,640 congregations. [3]
Hancock, Michigan. 1896–2023. ELCA. Gale College. Galesville, Wisconsin. 1854–1939. Norwegian Synod. Founded as a non-sectarian school, later run by the Methodists and Presbyterians, taken over by the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1901.
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 .
This is a list of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America colleges and universities : Augsburg University ( Minneapolis, Minnesota) Augustana College ( Rock Island, Illinois) Augustana University ( Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Bethany College ( Lindsborg, Kansas) California Lutheran University ( Thousand Oaks, California)
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary ( LTSS) is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and located in Columbia, South Carolina. It offers theological degrees. In 2012, it merged with Lenoir-Rhyne University, also affiliated with the ELCA. Although Lenoir-Rhyne is based in Hickory, North Carolina, LTSS operates as a ...
Lutheran Church in America. The Lutheran Church in America ( LCA) was an American and Canadian Lutheran church body that existed from 1962 to 1987. It was headquartered in New York City and its publishing house was Fortress Press . The LCA's immigrant heritage came mostly from Germany, Sweden, present-day Czech Republic, present-day Slovakia ...
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 ...
Faith Lutheran Church, formerly known as Salem Lutheran Church, is a historic church at 199 Granite Street in Quincy, Massachusetts. The church was built in 1894 to serve a growing congregation of Scandinavians who had come to Quincy to work in its granite quarries. The stones for this granite Gothic Revival church building were hauled and ...