Eielsen Synod, the former Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
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At the 2005 Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA (in Orlando, Florida) a special program was held in honor of the 35 years since her history-making ordination.
After serving as an ELCA Pastor, in 2008, Jens Bargmann was ordained in the historic Apostolic Succession as a Deacon and Priest and became the Pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, a parish of the Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (ALCC).
LCMC was started by the WordAlone Network as an alternative for local churches who no longer felt that they could remain in the ELCA and work to reform it.
Marie C. Jerge (born 1950s) was elected in 2002 to a six-year tem as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Upstate New York Synod.
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Jerge was born in Mineola, N.Y. She earned her bachelor of arts degree from Smith College, Northhampton, Mass., and a master of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, one of eight ELCA seminaries.
In cooperation with the local Evangelical Lutheran Church of Cameroon EELC and the American ELCA the NMS has built the Protestant Hospital of Ngaoundéré, a high school and several other institutions.
This action came in response to the dissatisfaction of theological conservatives within the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC), which were perceived as moving away from the authority of the Bible and the Lutheran Confessions.
Paul Stumme-Diers (born 1960), a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)
Upstate New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is led by bishop Marie C. Jerge, and is a Companion Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Zimbabwe, a partner synod with the Central/Southern Illinois Synod, and a Reconciling in Christ Synod.
Its members coalesced in opposition to changes in ELCA ordination practices that were required as part of the proposed Concordat of Agreement with the Episcopal Church USA (ECUSA).