• The Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), also referred to simply as the Wisconsin Synod, is an American Confessional Lutheran denomination of...
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    Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and is a member of the international Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC). The Evangelical...
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    organized in 1847 at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, as the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States (German: Die Deutsche...
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    namely, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod, or the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod.[citation needed]...
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  • members) and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) (with approximately 340,000 members). There are also many smaller Lutheran church bodies in...
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    with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod b Name is formatted this way to avoid confusion with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod c Synod is Non-geographic...
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  • Lutheran Worship (1982, LCMS), Christian Worship (1993, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod), and The Lutheran Hymnal (1941, Evangelical Lutheran Synodical...
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  • now the fourth largest Lutheran group in the United States, after the ELCA, the LCMS, and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). LCMC is congregational...
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    The Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of North America (German: Die Evangelisch-lutherischen Synodal-Conferenz von Nord-Amerika), often known simply...
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    conference's member churches: the LCMS, the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS), and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS). It contains 668 chorales, hymns...
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  • southeastern Wisconsin (the Buffalo Synod). In Scandinavia, where High Church Lutheranism and Pietist Lutheranism has been highly influential, the Evangelical Lutheran...
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  • Christian Worship: A Lutheran Hymnal (CW) is a hymnal of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) published in 1993. It was prepared by the WELS...
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  • Wisconsin Lutheran College (WLC) is a private liberal arts college affiliated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and located on the border...
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    Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA (LMS). The Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC) includes the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod...
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  • Gawrisch of the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). On April 27–29, 1993, the CELC was formed in Oberwesel, Germany with Lutheran church bodies...
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  • Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. p. 24. Retrieved March 6, 2018. "Lutheran Church of Central Africa—Zambia". Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference...
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  • The Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, commonly called the Norwegian Synod, was founded in 1853. It included churches in Illinois...
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  • congregations that broke away from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and the Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS) because of a doctrinal difference...
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    pastors, professors, and teachers from the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) and Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS), both based in the United States...
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  • Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary (WLS) is a post-secondary school that trains men to become pastors for the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS). It...
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    (4.5 million members), the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (2.3 million members), and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (0.4 million members). "Because...
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  • Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (previously the Augustana Lutheran Synod and also Scandinavian Evangelical Lutheran Augustana Synod in North America...
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    operated by various Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) congregations in the Milwaukee area. In 1903, a group of Lutheran pastors, teachers, and...
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    American Lutheran Church was formed in 1930 by a merger of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States (est. 1854), the Lutheran Synod of Buffalo...
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    Little-Known Lutheran Synods by Edward C. Fredrich The Doctrinal Differences Between the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod and the Church of the Lutheran Confession...
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  • Church of the Lutheran Confession (CLC): Immanuel Lutheran College (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS): Bethany Lutheran Theological...
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    fellowship. The LCR discussed church fellowship with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod (WELS) in the 1960s, but finally decided, in July 1970, that...
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    (PDF). Wisconsin Lutheran Seminary. p. 1. Retrieved January 26, 2015. "Universal Justification". WELS Topical Q&A. Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Archived...
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    the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. However, for some denominations such as the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod and the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran...
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  • closely associated with the Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod. It is also a member of the Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Conference (CELC), a worldwide...
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