Denominational Profile

History

National Evangelical Lutheran Church (Finnish) (1898)

merged intoLutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS) (1847)

The Finnish Evangelical Lutheran National Church of America was organized in 1898 at Rock Springs, Wyoming. It became the National Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1946 and in 1963 it merged into the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod.

Membership Data

Year	Clergy	Churches	Members
1925	16	60	5,000
1929	15	65	4,625
1935	14	59	7,904
1937	-	69	-
1940	-	65	6,275
1942	-	72	5,928
1947	-	65	6,559
1950	22	71	7,147
1951	23	71	7,530
1952	26	60	6,768
1953	25	60	7,148
1954	27	58	7,906
1955	26	58	7,282
1956	33	59	7,561
1957	25	57	8,428
1958	32	57	9,195
1959	34	54	9,772
1960	29	55	10,146
1961	35	56	10,545
1962	35	53	11,142

Data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches. Denomination descriptions provided by Dr. J. Gordon Melton, Director, Institute for the Study of American Religion (ISAR). [More information on data sources]