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First (Joint) Conference of
Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouses
Training of deaconesses in North America
was begun by several Lutheran church bodies, at several different
motherhouses, the earliest of which was at Philadelphia. They began
cooperating together and held their First (Joint) Conference of
Evangelical Lutheran Deaconess Motherhouses in 1896. Today they are all
survived by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, Deaconess
Community, Chicago. The archives of several of the following
motherhouses are now part of the ELCA Archives, Chicago. Here is the
full list of motherhouses which are part of this history, with founding
dates:
- Brooklyn, 1885
- Omaha, 1887
- Philadelphia, 1884
- Minneapolis, 1889
- Milwaukee, 1893
- Baltimore, 1895
- Chicago, 1897
- St. Paul, 1902
- Brush, Colorado, 1905
- Axtell, Nebraska, 1914
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