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5-733: Theologians The United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America (UNLC) was the result of the union in 1890 of the Norwegian Augustana Synod (established 1870), the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (established 1870), and the Anti-Missourian Brotherhood (established 1887). Some sources give the church's name as "in America" instead of "of America", In 1897,
10-922: A group of congregations left the UNLC and formed the Lutheran Free Church . In 1900, another group of congregations left to form the Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America . The UNLC merged in 1917 with two other Norwegian-American synods, the Hauge Synod (est. 1876) and the Norwegian Synod (1853), to form the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, whose name was later changed to the Evangelical Lutheran Church . That body later merged into
15-614: The American Lutheran Church , which itself became part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America . Marcus Olaus Bockman was president of the United Church Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota , which was operated by the UNLC until the 1917 merger. This article relating to Lutheranism is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Norwegian Augustana Synod Norwegian Augustana Synod ( NAS )
20-677: The SAS the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (The Conference). The difference between the NAS and the Conference was the inclusion of the Book of Concord . The NAS wanted to include the whole book as confessional base. The Conference just wanted the three ecumenical creeds , Luther's Small Catechism and the Unaltered Augsburg Confession . The two groups along
25-625: Was a Lutheran church body in the United States from 1870 to 1890. The group's original name was the Norwegian-Danish Augustana Synod in America . The name was shortened in 1878. The NAS was created out of the Scandinavian Augustana Synod (SAS) in 1870. The NAS was primarily made up of Norwegians (along with some Danes). At the same time the NAS was being formed, another group of Norwegians and Danes created out of
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