Church Body Correspondence Files, 1967-1987.

Preus, David W., 1922-

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Lutheran Church in America

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Organized June 28, 1962, by consolidation of the American Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran, and the United Lutheran Church in America; began to function formally on Jan. 1, 1963. From the description of Minutes, 1962-1987. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70924950 ...

Empie, Paul C.

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Mau, Carl H., Jr., 1922-1995.

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Hanson, Harold T.

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Lutheran World Ministries (Agency). General Secretary.

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Established in 1947, the USANC was administered by the National Lutheran Council (NLC) from 1947 through 1966. Upon termination of the NLC in 1966, the USANC became a separate standing body. In 1977, it was reorganized again as LWM, a joint agency of the Lutheran Church in America, The American Lutheran Church, and the Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches. LWM was terminated in 1987 with the establishment of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. USANC and LWM General Secretaries in...

Kohn, William H., 1915-

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Wee, Paul A., 1937-

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Herzfeld, Will Lawrence, 1937-

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Will L. Herzfeld, pastor of Bethlehem Lutheran Church in Oakland, California since 1973, was the first African-American bishop to head a Lutheran denomination in the United States. Born in Mobile, Alabama, Herzfeld was enrolled in Lutheran schools beginning at the elementary level and attended the Alabama Lutheran Academy in Selma and graduated with an Associate degree in Arts in 1957 from Immanuel Lutheran College of the Missouri Synod in Greensboro, North Carolina. He further purs...

Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (U.S.)

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Crumley, James R., 1925-

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Lutheran World Federation. U.S.A. National Committee

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The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) was founded as the successor body to the Lutheran World Convention at its Lund Assembly in Sweden in 1947. The new LWF constitution stipulated that each country in which LWF member church bodies were located establish a national committee to carry out its work and nurture its relationship with that country's member churches. The Executive Committee of the National Lutheran Council, an inter-Lutheran agency established to direct the Lutheran missio...

Knutson, Kent S.

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Marshall, Robert Thomas, 1919-....

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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...