Skeleton Synod Documents 1925-1940.

Iowa Synod.

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American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Board of Trustees.

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On August 11, 1930, the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States (Iowa Synod), the Synod of the Lutheran Church Emigrated From Prussia (Buffalo Synod), the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Adjacent States (Joint Synod of Ohio), and the First Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Texas (Texas Synod) merged and combined to form the American Lutheran Church (ALC). All the property of the four groups was at that time or shortly thereafter, transferred to the ALC. ...

Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States

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Originally established as a special conference of the Pennsylvania Ministerium in 1812, the Joint Synod petitioned the ministerium to form an independent body in 1817, and in 1818 the first general conference of the synod was held in Somerset, Ohio. The Joint Synod merged with the Buffalo Synod, Iowa Synod and Texas Synod in 1930 to form the American Lutheran Church. See C.V. Sheatsley's History of the Joint Synod of Ohio for further background. From the description of Convention pro...

Joint Synod of Ohio.

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Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States

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Synod of the Lutheran Church Emigrated From Prussia.

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American Lutheran Church (1961-1987). Skeleton Synods.

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Lutheran Synod of Buffalo

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See BUF Administrative History Johann Andreas August Grabau was born in 1804 in Olvenstedt near Madgeburg, Prussia, the son of devout Lutheran parents. He was educated in Madgeburg and Halle. A man of sensitive conscience, he pledged fidelity to the Lutheran confessions upon his ordination but was required to use the unionistic liturgy of the Prussian Evangelical Church when called to St. Andreas Church in Erfurt in 1834. The dissonance between his ordination vows and th...

American Lutheran Church (1961-1987)

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The American Lutheran Church (1961-1987) was formed by the merger of the American Lutheran Church (1930-1960), the Evangelical Lutheran Church and the United Evangelical Lutheran Church. Representatives from each of the constitutent churches formed the Joint Union Committee in 1950 to effect the merger. Presidents of the constituent bodies at the merger were Henry F. Schuh (ALC), William Larsen (UELC) and Fredrik A. Schiotz (ELC). Schiotz was elected president of the new church body; Norman A. M...