Origin from 1847
On 26 April 1847, twelve pastors representing fourteen congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States, the body that later took the name the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod. Its founders were German and Saxon immigrants who had left home rejecting the Prussian government's forced union of Lutheran and Reformed churches, seeking a confessional fellowship in America free of state interference, and they elected the Saxon immigrant pastor C. F. W. Walther as the new synod's first president. The synod organized more than a century after Lutheranism was first established in North America in 1742, already recorded here, and grew over the following century into one of the largest confessional Lutheran bodies in the country, well before the Lutheran World Federation formed in Lund, Sweden, in 1947, also already recorded here.
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StatusEstablished marks the Missouri Synod's 1847 organization as a distinct confessional Lutheran body in Chicago, a specific dated milestone between Lutheranism's establishment in North America in 1742 already recorded here and the Lutheran World Federation forming in Lund, Sweden, in 1947 also already recorded here. Cross-Tradition Connections
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This source names Americas directly: "On 26 April 1847, twelve pastors representing fourteen congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German..."
This source names Chicago directly: "Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States, the body that later took the name the Lutheran..."
This source names Illinois directly: "fourteen congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and..."
This source names Indiana directly: "fourteen congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and..."
This source names Michigan directly: "from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States, the body..."
This source names Missouri directly: "congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other..."
This source names Ohio directly: "Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States, the body that later took the name..."
This source names Saxons directly: "On 26 April 1847, twelve pastors representing fourteen congregations from Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Michigan, New York and Ohio met in Chicago and signed a constitution founding the German..."
This source names Sweden directly: "World Federation formed in Lund, Sweden, in 1947, also already recorded here."
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Adds a specific, dated institutional milestone between Lutheranism's establishment in North America in 1742 and the Lutheran World Federation forming in Lund, Sweden, in 1947, both already recorded here: twelve pastors representing fourteen congregations organizing the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio and Other States in Chicago, the confessional body that became the Lutheran Church, Missouri Synod.
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