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The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a moderate conservative, Confessional Lutheran denomination with German immigrant roots.

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  • Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod
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  • The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a moderate conservative, Confessional Lutheran denomination with German immigrant roots.
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  • member of the International Lutheran Council; in altar and pulpit fellowship with the American Association of Lutheran Churches; former member of Synodical Conference
Name
  • Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod
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  • Corporate seal of the LCMS
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Members
  • 2383084(xsd:integer)
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  • Orthodox Lutheran Conference, Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
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  • 175(xsd:integer)
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  • 6075(xsd:integer)
Area
  • United States, especially the Upper Midwest
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  • incorporated the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Illinois and Other States in 1880, Evangelical Lutheran Concordia Synod of Pennsylvania and Other States in 1886, English Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri and Other States in 1911, National Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1964, and the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches in 1971
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  • 1847-04-26(xsd:date)
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  • The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod (LCMS), founded in 1847 in Chicago, is the eighth largest Protestant denomination in the United States, and the second-largest Lutheran body in the U.S. after the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It is a moderate conservative, Confessional Lutheran denomination with German immigrant roots. The LCMS is headquartered in St. Louis, Missouri, and has about 2.4 million baptized members, approximately half of whom are located in the Upper Midwest, although it is represented in all 50 U.S. states, and is affiliated with other Lutheran sister churches worldwide. It also has several congregations in Ontario (and one in Quebec) that remained with the LCMS after most Canadian congregations in the Synod formed the autonomous Lutheran Church–Canada in 1988. The LCMS is divided into 35 districts — 33 geographic districts, and two (the English District and SELC) non-geographic. The current president is the Rev. Dr. Gerald B. Kieschnick.
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