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| 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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