Wikipedia's community edited article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Suomi Synod. Its value is accessibility and continuous updating; used here for the organizing date and place, membership statistics and the 1962 and 1988 mergers.
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Tier 3: a continuously revised, community-edited encyclopedia article rather than an authored or peer reviewed work, matching this corpus's settled precedent for Wikipedia citations. Useful for verifiable biographical and organizational detail; corroborated here by the Gustavus Adolphus finding aid and the LSTC history page. NotesWikipedia's article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, commonly the Suomi Synod. Community edited rather than peer reviewed; used here for standard biographical facts (organizing date and place, membership figures, the 1962 merger) that its own citations and the other sources in this batch corroborate.
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URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_of_America
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This source names Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America directly: "community edited article on the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, the Suomi Synod."
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This source backs 32 claims across the atlas. As facts: 23 well-attested. As cited relationships: 4 holds, 1 connected. Plus 4 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Denominations, 15 claims: 11 well-attested, 3 holds, 1 general references.
- Articles, 8 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 connected, 2 general references.
- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Organizations, 1 claims: 1 general references.
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