Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America

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The Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America is a confessional Lutheran church body in the United States. The ELDoNA was founded June 6, 2006 at a meeting held at Salem Lutheran Church, Malone, Texas. A second diocesan synod^[1] was held August 28 and 29, 2007. The third diocesan synod was held at Christ Lutheran Church in Richmond, Missouri May 22, 2008, and the fourth in the same location, May 14 and 15, 2009. For the fifth Colloquium and Synod, the diocese returned to Malone, Texas, May 12–15, 2010, and met there again for the sixth Colloquium and Synod May 11–13, 2011. The most recent Colloquium and Synod was the first event where all but one of the pastors of the diocese and the entire clergy of the ACLC were in attendance. Among the significant decisions of the 2011 synod was the resolution to open a diocesan seminary in September 2012; the 2012 synod chose to delay that planned opening to 2014. The 2012 synod took place at Salem Lutheran Church in Malone, Texas the week of April 23–27, 2012, and the 2013 synod took place April 29–May 3, 2013.

In 2006, The Rt. Rev. James Heiser was called to serve as the diocesan bishop. (Bishop Heiser recently published a volume of essays on the doctrine of the holy ministry entitled Stewards of the Mysteries of God.^[2] He is also the author of a study of the neo-Platonic revival which took place during the Italian Renaissance, entitled Prisci Theologi and the Hermetic Reformation in the Fifteenth Century.^[3]) There are now seventeen pastors in the diocese, serving congregations in Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Mexico, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Wisconsin.

In 2013, Repristination Press published a volume of essays by Pastor John Rutowicz which sets forth the diocesan understanding of the episcopal office: Holding Fast the Faithful Word: Episcopacy and the Office of the Holy Ministry in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America^[4]

The diocese produces a monthly devotional journal, The Lutheran Herald, which also includes diocesan news.

References

1. ↑ Colloquium & Synod, ElDoNA, 2007 .
2. ↑ Repristination Press, Texas: 2011. ISBN 978-1-891469-41-1
3. ↑ Repristination Press, Texas: 2011. ISBN 978-1-4610-9382-4
4. ↑ Repristination Press, Texas: 2013. ISBN 978-1891469466

External links

• Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America Website
• News of Fellowship Between the ELDoNA and the ACLC
• ELDoNA responds to the Actions of the ELCA 2009 Churchwide Assembly
• Wittenberg Door commentary
• Mars Society Bio of Bp. Heiser
• American Lutheran Publicity Bureau Discussion of the ELDoNA