Eielsen Synod

Eielsen Synod
ClassificationLutheran
RegionUnited States
FounderElling Eielsen
Origin1846
Jefferson Prairie Settlement, Wisconsin
SeparationsHauge Synod (1876)
Other name(s)Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Eielsen Synod (originally named the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America) was a Lutheran church body. It was founded in 1846 at Jefferson Prairie Settlement, Wisconsin, by a group of Haugean Lutherans led by Elling Eielsen, the first Norwegian Lutheran minister in the United States.

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