The Hauge Synod (formally Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Synod in America) was the name of a

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church body in the

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in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

Background

The Hauge Synod (Norwegian: ) was named after Norwegian revivalist lay preacher

Hans Nielsen Hauge Hans Nielsen Hauge (3 April 1771 – 29 March 1824) was a 19th-century Norwegian Lutheran lay minister, spiritual leader, business entrepreneur, social reformer and author. He led a noted Pietism revival known as the Haugean movement. Hauge is also ...

. The synod was low church, de-emphasizing formal worship and stressing personal faith in the Haugean tradition (). The Hauge Synod was formed in 1876 following a split with The Evangelical Lutheran Church of North America (Eielsen Synod). The Eielsen Synod was founded in 1846 by Rev.

Elling Eielsen Elling Eielsen (September 19, 1804 – January 10, 1883) was a Norwegian-American minister and Lutheran Church leader. He was the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States. Background Eielsen was born and raised on the farm of Sundve ...

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. Eielsen was a lay preacher and evangelist from Norway who is considered the chief transplanter of the

Haugean movement The Haugean movement or Haugeanism ( no, haugianere) was a Pietistic state church reform movement intended to bring new life and vitality into the Church of Norway which had been often characterized by formalism and lethargy. The movement empha ...

from Norway to America.

Red Wing Seminary Red Wing Seminary was a Lutheran Church seminary which operated from 1879 to 1932 in Red Wing, Minnesota, United States, with brick buildings on a bluff called College Hill overlooking the Mississippi River. History Red Wing Seminary was the edu ...

was the Hauge Synod educational center located in

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. The Hauge Synod opened the seminary in 1879, and it continued in operation until 1917. The Hauge Synod merged in 1917 into the

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. That group was later renamed the Evangelical Lutheran Church and then merged into the

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(ALC) in 1960. The ALC later merged into the

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.Record Group 4: Hauge Synod
Luther Seminary archives

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*Nelson, E. Clifford, and Fevold, Eugene L. ''The Lutheran Church among Norwegian-Americans: a history of the Evangelical Lutheran Church'' (Minneapolis: Augsburg Publishing House: 1960) *Satre, Lowell J ''The Hauge's Synod: education for awakening'' (editors: Fevold, Eugene L. - Frost, Gerhard E. - Quanbeck, Warren A. - Sonnack, Paul G.: Decorah, Iowa: 1977)

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History of Christianity in the United States Evangelical Lutheran Church in America predecessor churches Norwegian migration to North America Religious organizations established in 1876 1876 establishments in Wisconsin Lutheran denominations in North America Lutheran denominations established in the 19th century

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