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The ALC began ordaining women as ministers/pastors in
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Lutheran Center on West Higgins Road in suburban
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congregations in separate regional synods in Canada) to form the
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Divinity School of
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Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America predecessor churches
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History of the bodies that eventually joined into The ALC
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Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church Association in America
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Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States
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Lutheran denominations established in the 20th century
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Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
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Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States
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Defunct Christian denomination in the United States
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286:Association of Confessional Lutheran Churches
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740:Association of Evangelical Lutheran Churches
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413:Church of the Lutheran Brethren of America
367:Association of Free Lutheran Congregations
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321:Orthodox Lutheran Confessional Conference
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407:Apostolic Lutheran Church of America
385:Lutheran Ministerium and Synod – USA
336:Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
316:Lutheran Churches of the Reformation
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981:National General Conventions
770:Presidents/presiding bishops
653:(established 1853), and the
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306:Independent Lutheran Diocese
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880:Pacific Lutheran University
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628:Ministerium of Pennsylvania
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419:Laestadian Lutheran Church
301:Evangelical Lutheran Synod
245:Augsburg Lutheran Churches
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927:Seminaries
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781:1971–1973
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512:Protestant
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