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3 unusual facts about Lutheran Church in America


John Steinbruck

There, Steinbruck was taught by energetic young professors who had studied under the top theologians of Europe - men such as John Reumann, William Lazareth, Robert Bornemann, and Theodore Tappert, intellectual leaders in the Lutheran Church in America.

Robert J. Marshall

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.

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.


Art Clokey

Clokey's second most famous production is the duo of Davey and Goliath, funded by the Lutheran Church in America.

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada came into being in 1986 through the merger of two predecessor bodies the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (started in 1966 by Canadian congregations of the American Lutheran Church) and three synods of the Lutheran Church in America, called the Canada Section.


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American Lutheran Church

In 1966, Canadian congregations of the ALC formed the autonomous Evangelical Lutheran Church of Canada (ELCC), which in 1986 joined with the Lutheran Church in America – Canada Section (LCA-CS) to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC).

ELCA

Eielsen Synod, the former Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Stumme

Paul Stumme-Diers (born 1960), a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)