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History
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Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the United States of America |
renamed toSynod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (1902) |
merged intoLutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) |
| Lutherans from Czechoslovakia began to migrate to the United States in the 1870s and early congregations were formed in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Minnesota. Attempts to organize began in the 1890s, and the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod was finally established at Connellsville, Pennsylvania, in 1902. It merged into the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod in 1971. |
Membership Data
| Year | Clergy | Churches | Members |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1946 | - | 56 | 20,866 |
| 1949 | - | 64 | 21,211 |
| 1950 | 58 | 59 | 18,870 |
| 1951 | 54 | 59 | 20,244 |
| 1952 | 7 | 59 | 20,562 |
| 1955 | 49 | 58 | 16,474 |
| 1957 | 58 | 59 | 18,003 |
| 1958 | 56 | 59 | 19,931 |
| 1960 | 59 | 54 | 8,531 |
| 1961 | 57 | 50 | 19,802 |
| 1962 | 57 | 53 | 19,184 |
| 1964 | 63 | 65 | 21,656 |
Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. The National Council of Churches' data collection was discontinued after the 2012 Yearbook was published, and has been resumed by the Association of Statisticians of American Religious Bodies (ASARB). The tables and graphs will be updated when the new collection is available. See the Yearbook of Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]
