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Missionaries: 1842-2000 - ELCA Archives
Mission work of ELCA predecessor church bodies
Predecessors of The American Lutheran Church Country Established
American Lutheran Church ("Old ALC") - German (predecessor bodies before 1930 were the Joint Synod of Ohio, the Iowa Synod and the Buffalo Synod) India 1865
Papua New Guinea 1886
Indonesia 1957
Ethiopia 1957
Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC, formerly the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, predecessors before 1917 include the Norwegian Synod, the Hauge Synod and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church) Natal, South Africa 1844
Madagascar 1888
Hong Kong, China 1890
Cameroon 1923
Colombia 1944
Japan 1949
Taiwan (Formosa) 1952
Brazil 1958
United (Danish) Evangelical Lutheran Church ("Sad" or "Holy" Danes) Santal, India 1867
Japan (with ULCA) 1893
Nigeria 1913
Colombia (with ELC) 1944
Brazil (with ELC) 1958
Lutheran Free Church - Norwegian Madagascar 1888
Santal, India 1904
Hong Kong, China 1915
Taiwan (Formosa) 1951
Japan 1951
Predecessors of the Lutheran Church in America
United Lutheran Church in America (ULCA) - German (Predessors before 1918 were the General Synod, the General Council and the United Synod of the South) India 1842
Liberia 1860
British Guyana 1889
Japan 1892
Argentina 1908
Hong Kong, China 1925
Malaysia 1953
Uruguay 1957
Chile 1961
Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church - Swedish India 1870
Hong Kong, China 1905
Tanganyika 1922
Malaysia-Sabah, Borneo 1948
Japan 1950
Taiwan (Formosa) 1951
Uruguay 1952
American (Danish) Evangelical Lutheran Church (AELC) - "Happy" Danes Santal, India 1913
Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Church (Suomi Synod) Japan 1950
National Lutheran Council (cooperative body of all of the bodies listed above) Tanganyika

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