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Districts Of The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS) is organized into 35 districts, 33 of which are defined along geographic lines. Each district has a President (corporate title), president who oversees the congregations in his district, which are further subdivided into local circuit (LCMS), circuits. The position of president is analogous to the role of bishop in many church bodies, but the LCMS supports a synodical polity, which combines congregationalist polity and episcopal polity, as opposed to an exclusively episcopal polity, hierarchical governance. Each district chooses its own president from among the pastors in the district at its triennial convention. In some districts the district president occupies a full-time position, while in others he continues to serve as pastor in a congregation. The 35 district presidents plus the synod president form the Council of Presidents (COP), one of whose duties is to place graduates from the two Seminaries of the Lutheran Church - Missouri S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod
The Lutheran Church – Missouri Synod (LCMS), also known as the Missouri Synod, is a traditional, confessional Lutheran Christian denomination, denomination in the United States. With 1.8 million members, it is the second-largest Lutheranism, Lutheran body in the United States. The LCMS was organized in 1847 at a meeting in Chicago, Illinois, as the German Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri, Ohio, and Other States (german: Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten), a name which partially reflected the geographic locations of the founding congregations. The LCMS has congregations in all 50 U.S. states and two Canadian provinces, but over half of its members are located in the Midwestern United States, Midwest. It is a member of the International Lutheran Council and is in altar and pulpit fellowship with most of that group's members. The LCMS is headquartered in Kirkwood, Missouri, and is divided into 35 Districts of the Lutheran Church â ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
