Basic Information

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.

History

Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Synod of the United States of America

renamed toSynod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches (1902)

merged intoLutheran Church-Missouri Synod (LCMS)

Notes

History data were taken from the National Council of Churches' Historic Archive CD and recent editions of the Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches [More information on history data sources]