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 traditional, 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 lo...
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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 traditional, 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.
The Missouri Synod emerged from...
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