American Lutheran Church (1930)
American Lutheran Church | |
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Classification | Buffalo Synod |
Merged into | American Lutheran Church (1960) |
Congregations | 1,961 (1959) |
Members | 1,002,015 (1959) |
Ministers | 2,156 (1959) |
The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was formed in 1930 from the merger of the three conservative Lutheran synods of German-American origin: The
In 1960, the ALC merged with the Evangelical Lutheran Church, which was of Norwegian-American origin, and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church, of Danish-American origin, to form a new body that was also named the American Lutheran Church. After the merger the original ALC was informally referred to as the "old American Lutheran Church" or the "first American Lutheran Church" to distinguish it from the later body, while the second was often referred to as "The American Lutheran Church" (or TALC), with a capital "T" in the definitive article.
In 1959, just before its merger into the TALC, the ALC had 2,156 pastors, 1,961 congregations, and 1,002,015 members.[1]
Presidents
- Carl Christian Hein 1930–1937
- Emmanuel F. Poppen 1937–1950
- Henry F. Schuh 1951–1960
Colleges
- Capital University, Bexley, Columbus, Ohio
- Wartburg College, Waverly, Iowa
- Texas Lutheran University, Seguin, Texas
- Luther College (Saskatchewan), Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Seminaries
- The Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary, founded 1830 (also known as Capital Seminary) in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio, which merged in 1978 with the Hamma Divinity School of Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio (an LCA seminary), into the present Trinity Lutheran Seminary
- Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa
- St. Paul, Minnesota
- Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California
Notes
- ^ "American Lutheran Church (1930-1960)". American Denomination Profiles. Association of Religion Data Archives. Archived from the original on November 1, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.
References
- Lueker, Erwin L.; Poellot, Luther; Jackson, Paul, eds. (2000). Christian Cyclopedia (Online ed.). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. Archived from the original on August 12, 2015. Retrieved October 31, 2015.