Word: synods
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...days, in San Francisco's Civic Auditorium, 1,000 delegates to the 44th triennial convention of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod labored to keep their closely knit conservative denomination (2,200,000 members) as closely knit and conservative as ever. To further both aims, the convention re-elected Dr. John W. Behnken president for another three-year term. To 75-year-old Dr. Behnken, who has headed the synod for the past 24 years, sound and solid doctrinal agreement is the only safe basis of collaboration with any other church body; his election is a guarantee that the Missouri...
...Beirut, Lebanon, the oldest U.S. Protestant mission still in continuous existence handed over its property and work to the indigenous church it had fostered-the 10,000-member National Evangelical Synod of Syria and Lebanon. Founded in 1823, the Syria-Lebanon mission has been mainly the responsibility of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. (Northern) and the Congregationalists. But now the 57 missionaries who remain will be "fraternal workers" under the authority of the new church, and about $1,000,000 worth of schools, colleges, hospitals and other properties will pass to Arab Christian ownership...
Last month in Istanbul, Athenagoras backed James for election to the New York see against stiff opposition. The battle arena: Greek Orthodoxy's twelve-seat Holy Synod, composed of 16 metropolitans (on a revolving basis), whose actual or titular sees are in Turkey. To elect James, Athenagoras needed a minimum of six votes plus his own tiebreaker, but could muster only five. The majority considered strongly anti-Communist Archbishop James too "progressive." When four anti-James metropolitans took their case outside the synod, leaking word to Turkish newspapers that James was "an enemy of the Turkish people," Athenagoras promptly...
Divinity School graduate James Coucouzes S.T.M. '45, was elected Archbishop of the Americas by the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church, Saturday, in Istanbul...
David danced before the ark, but that was not "social dancing." Social dancing has long been viewed by many Christians as dangerous to spiritual health if not actually sinful. The Missouri Synod Lutherans, for instance, disapprove of what a special committee of their ministers defined as "the embrace of members of the opposite sexes who are not married to each other.'' But, meeting in Milwaukee last week, the Concordia College conference, attended by 50 ministers of the Missouri synod (membership: 2,150,230), tentatively opened the door to the "party. "In the literature of our synod with respect...