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Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
Protestant church, United States
Quick Facts
- Date:
- 1860 - present
- Areas Of Involvement:
- Christianity
- Lutheranism
Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church, church organized in the United States by Norwegian and Swedish immigrants in 1860 in Jefferson Prairie, Wisconsin, as the Scandinavian Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Synod. Tufve Nilsson Hasselquist, an ordained minister in the Church of Sweden, was the first president. It took its name from Confessio Augustana, the Latin name for the Augsburg Confession, written in 1530 by German Lutheran Reformers. After its Norwegian membership withdrew in 1870, the church was composed primarily of Swedish immigrants and their descendants. The first congregations were organized in New Sweden, Iowa (1848), served by a lay pastor, and in Andover, ...(100 of 238 words)