Word: synodical
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...other 900 refused to Nazify their faith, went into training in underground Confessional seminaries for certificates which Confessional congregations will accept in lieu of ordination. Cut off from any possibility of salaries from Nazi-levied church taxes, they must live on the scant $45 a month which the Confessional Synod can allow them...
...Confessional Synod, whose 5,000 pastors were militantly opposed to Nazi domination, fought it by every means in their power...
...gaunt, blunt, unbending hero of World War I, who won the Iron Cross for his exploits as a submarine commander (he sank 55,000 tons of Allied shipping), he was pastor of the swank Jesus Christus Kirche in Berlin's socialite suburb Dahlem and led the Confessional Synod's attack on Naziism until clapped into jail in July 1937 for "misuse of the pulpit." The court freed him when he came to trial in February 1938, but the Gestapo promptly hustled him off to concentration camp at Sachsenhausen. There he remains, all rumors to the contrary notwithstanding, having...
...robust Dr. Emmanuel Poppen of Columbus, Ohio, their president: "The church's 1,600 pastors and 2,000 congregations must have an opportunity to be heard." Upshot: the American Lutherans expressed a fervent hope that they and the United Lutherans might both soon be united with the Missouri Synod. They appointed a new commission to continue negotiations...
Somewhat dashed, the United Lutherans took what comfort they could in the fact that they had at least achieved union with the few (6,000) U. S. and Canadian members of the Icelandic Synod...