|
First Lutheran Deaconesses in
North America, 1849
 The first Lutheran deaconesses were brought
to North America in 1849 by the Rev. William A. Passavant, specifically
to staff what later became Passavant Hospital in Pittsburgh. The
deaconess institutions of Germany, at Kaiserworth, by the Rev. Theodore
Fliedner and at Neuendettelsau by the Rev. Wilhelm Loehe became the
model for diaconal life, community and training for American Lutheran
deaconesses.
|
