America consists of 65 synods which are configured into nine regional offices. Each of the synods of the ELCA elects one bishop and three synod council officers...

each headed by a synodical bishop and council; these synods are in turn grouped into nine regions. Within the ELCA the term synod refers to the middle...

adult daughters, Rebeckah and Susannah. List of ELCA synods Timeline of women's ordination "Installation of ELCA Presiding Bishop Elizabeth Eaton". Oct...

English-speaking Lutherans to other synods, particularly the Tennessee and Ohio synods. In 1872, members of the Tennessee Synod invited representatives from...

of establishing state synods. These state synods were to organize into two or three larger synods, one for the east (corresponding to the Ohio Synod)...

the 1988 merger that formed the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). After splitting with the American Lutheran Church in 1987, the AALC originally...

Eesti Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC) Evangelical Lutheran Conference & Ministerium of North...

with the other Lutheran synods until 1966. It underwent a name change in 1944, to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Australia (ELCA). One group broke away...

with them. The ELCA has schools which are part of the Network of ELCA Colleges and Universities while the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod has the Concordia...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). "Scripture, Creeds, Confessions". Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Schmeling, Timothy. "Lutheran...

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) has seven seminaries: Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (Illinois) Lutheran Theological Southern...

noting that it stands between the more liberal ELCA and the more conservative Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and other Lutheran church bodies in North...

Seminary is a seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in Saint Paul, Minnesota. It is the largest seminary of the ELCA. It also accepts...

is a list of higher education Lutheran colleges and universities in the United States: Affiliations: CLC = Church of the Lutheran Confession ELCA = Evangelical...

calendars of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) in their present forms are listed below, as...

The LCMS Synodical President Matthew Harrison was present to register the objections of the LCMS to the ordination of homosexuals at the ELCA Churchwide...

of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy or Theology. The seminary serves all of the ELCA and has specific ties to Regions 1 and 2 and the eleven synods of the...

Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS) and the Lutheran Church–Canada (LCC) use the Lutheran Book of Worship and the 1982 Lutheran Worship. Elements unique to the ELCA have...

Synod (WELS) with 344,000 members. The differences between the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) and the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS)...

government of a bishop (see Archbishop of Uppsala). Other Lutheran bodies and synods that have dioceses and bishops include the Church of Denmark, the...

Church—Hong Kong Synod Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod Lutheran Church of Australia Laestadian Lutheran Church Lutheran Ministerium and Synod - USA Lutheran...

America (ELCA). In 2010, Evangelical left the ELCA to become a charter congregation of the newly formed North American Lutheran Church. It was listed on the...

States. While it is in its twenty-seventh printing and widely used by the ELCA and the ELCIC, the LBW was replaced in October 2006 as the primary worship...

According to the Lutheran World Federation list of member churches, thirteen Indonesian Lutheran churches or synods (the latest one added in 2014) associated...

Retrieved 2010-11-19. "History of the ELCA A Union of Common Beliefs". Elca.org. 1988-01-01. Retrieved 2010-11-19. Encyclopedia of women and religion in North...

Lutheran Synod (ELS) Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921–1976) List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar Bishops of Hamburg...

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Born April Ulring in Decorah, Iowa, on April 22, 1950, Larson was the second of five children. After high school...

up of one member from each Provincial Board, and acts as an executive committee between Unity Synods. It meets three times between Synods but much of its...

Orleans, Miami and New York Mpls-synod.org of the ELCA Mindekirken's listing at the ELCA's Minneapolis Synod web site Mindekirken is centrally located in the...

called by the ELCA’s Rocky Mountain Synod and installed as that denomination's first Pastor of Public Witness, in a ceremony where the synod's bishop, Jim...