General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America information
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General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America
Classification
Protestant
Orientation
Lutheran
Associations
National Lutheran Council
Region
United States
Origin
1867 Reading, Pennsylvania
Merged into
United Lutheran Church in America (1918)
Congregations
2,564 in 1917
Members
524,259 confirmed in 1917
Ministers
1,680 in 1917
The General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, or, in brief, the General Council was a conservative Lutheran church body, formed as a reaction against the new "Americanized Lutheranism" of Samuel Simon Schmucker and the Evangelical Lutheran General Synod of the United States of North America.
The General Council was founded in November, 1867, with ten Lutheran synods becoming members Founded at the instigation of the Pennsylvania Ministerium, the General Council placed special emphasis on the Lutheran Confessions and their role in the life of the church. In 1872, the General Council adopted the Akron-Galesburg Rule, written by Charles Porterfield Krauth, reserving Lutheran pulpits for Lutheran pastors and Lutheran altars for Lutheran communicants.
Theodore Emanuel Schmauk was the president of the General Council from 1903 until the formation of the United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA) in 1918. The ULCA was formed by the merger of three independent German-language synods: the General Synod, the General Council, and the United Synod of the South.[1] In 1917, the General Council consisted of 14 synods (including the Augustana Synod, which did not join the merger), 1,680 pastors, 2,564 congregations, and 524,259 confirmed members.[2]
^Reed, Luther D., ed. (1923). Philadelphia Seminary Biographical Record 1864-1923. Mt. Airy, Philadelphia: Philadelphia Lutheran Seminary and the Alumni Association. Retrieved January 13, 2015.
^Lueker, Erwin L.; Poellot, Luther; Jackson, Paul, eds. (2000). "General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in (North) America". Christian Cyclopedia (Online ed.). St. Louis: Concordia Publishing House. Retrieved February 14, 2018.
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