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11 unusual facts about Evangelical Lutheran Church in America


Angel in My Pocket

The presence of a Bishop, the vestments that Sam Whitehead wears, Sam's prefacing of his sermon with collect and the fact that his title is "pastor" suggest that the denomination is one of the groups which formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Eric IX of Sweden

Eric would later be considered a saint whose feast day in the Roman Catholic Church and Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is 18 May, although he was never formally canonized by the Pope.

Jayaque

These churches are sponsored by the Lutheran Church of Penzberg, Bavaria, Germany as well as through relationships with churches in the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in southeast Wisconsin, USA.

Journal of Lutheran Ethics

The Journal of Lutheran Ethics is a bimonthly open access academic journal that covers ethical issues from Christian perspectives with special attention to the confessional tradition of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

K. Lee Scott

His hymns are published in eight hymnals, including A New Hymnal for Colleges and Schools (Yale University Press), Voices United (The United Church of Canada) and With One Voice (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America).

Lutheran CORE

Lutheran CORE, or Coalition for Renewal, is a community of confessing Lutherans spanning several Lutheran church bodies, like the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ and the North American Lutheran Church.

Its efforts were focused on working for reform of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Marie C. Jerge

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.

North American Lutheran Church

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.

Richard H. Graham

Richard H. Graham is the third and current bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Theodore Schneider

Theodore F. Schneider was the second bishop of the Metropolitan Washington, D.C. Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.


Howard D. Stendahl

Born and reared in St. Paul, Minnesota, Stendahl was ordained in 1977 into the ministry of The American Lutheran Church now a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

Jens Bargmann

He earned the degree of Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; and was ordained a Pastor by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 2005.

Ngaoundéré

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.

Old Zionsville, Pennsylvania

There are two churches of the Lutheran and UCC faiths in the village and two more of the Mennonite and Bible Fellowship faiths within a mile to the east near Zionsville.

Regina Fryxell

Regina Fryxell, born Regina Holmén (November 24, 1899 – September, 1993) was a popular and influential American composer of Lutheran hymns and was responsible for the Setting Two of the Service Book and Hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, on which she worked between 1948 and 1958.

Robert J. Marshall

During his leadership, he played a pivotal role in the merger of his Lutheran Church in America with the American Lutheran Church and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

In 1988, building on the outreach and dialogue that Marshall had worked on, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America was formed by the merger of the relatively liberal Lutheran Church in America with the more conservative American Lutheran Church and Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches.

Upstate New York Synod

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.