| The churchwide archives also works in partnership with ELCA
synodical and regional archives where records of more local interest for synods and
congregations may be found. For this "ELCA Archives Network," the churchwide
archives prepares ELCA Archives Network News, twice a year. For information about
other ELCA institutional archives, such as those at colleges and seminaries, you may
contact the ELCA Archives for further information or a referral. |
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REGION 1
The core of the collection at the Region 1 archives is mainly from ELCA synods in that
area and the Norwegian and Swedish predecessor districts and conferences, but the
collections also include such items as the recently deposited records of Holden Village,
Chelan, Wash. |
| Alaska, Idaho,
Montana, Oregon and Washington |
|
Kerstin Ringdahl
ELCA Region 1 Archives
Archives and Special Collections
Mortvedt Library
Pacific Lutheran University
Tacoma, WA 98447
(253) 535-7586
E-mail: ringdak@plu.edu
http://www.plu.edu/~archives/ |
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REGION 2
Materials on the work of synods in the region are found at the Region 2 archives, as
well as core collections from The American Lutheran Church and the Lutheran Church in
America districts and synods and their predecessors. A recent addition to this collection
was the records of the former LCA Rocky Mountain Synod. |
| Arizona, California, Colorado,
Hawaii, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming |
|
Carol Schmalenberger
ELCA Region 2 Archives
Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
2770 Marin Avenue
Berkeley, CA 94708-1597
(510) 524-5264
E-mail: archives@plts.edu |
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REGION 3
The Region 3 archives center holds records of the work of synods in the region. It also
houses materials from the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America, later named the
Evangelical Lutheran Church, which merged in 1960 into The American Lutheran Church, and
records from the NLCA's predecessor bodies: The United Norwegian Lutheran Church, the
Hauge Synod, and the Norwegian Synod. The records of the Lutheran Free Church are also
deposited here. In addition, it has district and congregational information and materials
from Lutheran foreign missions. |
| Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota |
|
Paul A. Daniels
ELCA Region 3 Archives
2481 Como Avenue West
Saint Paul, MN 55108-1445
(651) 641-3205
E-mail: pdaniels@luthersem.edu
http://www.luthersem.edu/archives/
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| REGION 4 |
| For Arkansas, Oklahoma: |
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Arkansas-Oklahoma Synod:
6391 S. 66th E.Ave. Suite 310
Tulsa OK 74133-1760
(918) 492-4288
ida@arokoffice.org |
| For
the Central States Synod, the archives are located at Bethany College, Lindsborg, Kan.,
which had been the traditional location of the archives of the former Augustana Kansas
Conference and its successors. |
| For
Kansas and Missouri: |
|
Bethany College
Archives
Wallerstedt Library
335 E. Swensson Street
Lindsborg , Kansas 67456-1897
(785) 227-3311, Ext. 8342
Archivist E-mail: carsond@bethanylb.edu |
| The
collection at Texas Lutheran University has materials relating to Texas and Louisiana,
with the earliest items dating back to the Texas Synod, starting in the 1850s. |
| For Texas
and Louisiana: |
|
The Rev. Luther W. Oelke
ELCA Region IV-South Archives
1090 Oestreich Dr.
Seguin, TX 78155
830-379-9900
E-mail: loelke@tlu.edu |
| Some
materials related to the current Central States Synod territory of Kansas and Missouri may
also be found in the archives of the Nebraska Synod, which are located at Dana College,
Blair, Neb. That collection has both Augustana materials and records from the German
Nebraska Synod, part of the former United Lutheran Church in America. |
| For Nebraska |
:
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Nebraska Synod
4980 S. 118th St., Suite D
Omaha, NE 68137-2220
(402) 896-5311
Fax: (402) 896-5354
E-mail:
office@nebraskasynod.org
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REGION 5
In addition to holding material from the districts and synods of The American Lutheran
Church and the Lutheran Church in America, it is also the main repository for the former
Iowa Synod, a church body that existed from 1854-1930. |
| Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Upper Michigan: |
|
Nancy Carroll
ELCA Region 5 Archives
333 Wartburg Place
Dubuque, IA 52003-7797
(563) 589-0320
E-mail:
ncarroll@wartburgseminary.edu
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REGION 6
In Region 6, the collections are particulary rich for the former American Lutheran Church
districts and the former Indiana-Kentucky Synod of the Lutheran Church in America and its
predecessors. |
Indiana,
Kentucky, lower Michigan, Ohio: |
|
Jennifer Long
ELCA Region 6 Archives
Trinity Lutheran Seminary
2199 East Main Street
Columbus, OH 43209-2334
(614) 235-4136, Ext. 4002
reg6archives@TrinityLutheranSeminary.edu
www.trinitylutheranseminary.edu/elca/ |
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| REGION 7 |
| Among the files of the Region 7
archives at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia are those of the Ministerium of
Pennsylvania, which was the first North American Lutheran church body, founded in1748. The
papers of the founder of that organization, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, are among the
oldest records on file for ELCA history. |
| For all synods except
Metropolitan New York and the Slovak-Zion Synod: |
|
John E. Peterson
Lutheran Archives Center
Northeast Region Archives ELCA
7301 Germantown Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19119-1794
(215) 248-4616, ext. 34
FAX: (215) 248-4577
E-mail: mtairyarchives@ltsp.edu |
| The Metropolitan New York Synod's Sutter Memorial
Archives are located at Wagner
College, Staten Island, N.Y. Materials in this archives date to the beginning of the New
York Ministerium in 1786. |
| For Metropolitan New York
Synod: |
|
John R. Daggan
Sutter Memorial Archives
Horrmann Library
Wagner College
One Campus Road
Staten Island, NY 10301
E-mail: jdaggan@cgsh.com
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| The only non-geographical synod in the ELCA, the
Slovak Zion Synod has its records at: |
| For Slovak Zion Synod: |
|
Bishop Wilma S.
Kucharek
P.O.Box 1003
Torrington CT 06790-1003
(860) 482-6100
wilma.kucharek@ecunet.org |
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| REGION 8 |
| Older material in the Tri-Synod
Archives collection relates to the former Pittsburgh Synod of the General Council. |
| For Western Pennsylvania, West
Virginia- Western Maryland: |
|
Sarah (Sally) Roth
Tri-Synod Archives
Thiel College
College Avenue
Greenville, PA 16125
(724) 589-2131 |
| The archives in Gettysburg, Pa., is the host to the records of the
first large confederation of American Lutheran synods, namely the General Synod. This
archives also has significant personal papers collected by the Lutheran Historical
Society. |
| For Central Pennsylvania,
Delaware-Maryland & Metropolitan Washington, DC: |
|
Elwood W. Christ
A.R. Wentz Library
Lutheran Theological Seminary
Gettysburg, PA 17325
(717) 334-6286, Ext. 2131
E-mail: echrist@ltsg.edu
http://www.abs.net/~lhs/
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| REGION 9 |
| The archives in Columbia, S.C., hold material relating to the United
Synod of the South, a church body that originated in 1863. |
| For Alabama, Florida-Bahamas,
Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Virginia, and the Caribbean Synod: |
|
Jeannette Bergeron
James R. Crumley, Jr. Archives
Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary
4201 North Main Street
Columbia, SC 29203
(803) 461-3234
FAX: (803) 461-3358
E-mail:
jbergeron@ltss.edu
http://crumleyarchives.ltss.edu |
|
For Virginia, also contact the Virginia Synod offices
on the campus of Roanoke College, Salem, Va. |
| |
|
Keith Brown
ELCA Virginia Synod
P.O. Drawer 70
Salem, VA 24153
(540) 389-1000
FAX: (540) 389-5962
E-mail: kbrown@roanoke.edu
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