Concordia Seminary history

52: Wyneken Oil Paintings (1842) No.

August Friedrich Craemer’s Marriage Certificate (1845) No.

Yet through those disruptions, through the toil and trouble, next academic year CTSFW will celebrate 175 years of existence, grown from a class of 11 students in October of 1846.

When the LCMS started in 1847 as Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten, the “Deutsche” (“German”) was inclusive, not exclusive.

22: Map of German Lutheran Mission Work in North America (1848) No.

In 1849, the preparatory division and the school of theology of the young institution moved to St Louis and relocated to South Jefferson Avenue and Winnebago Street.

33: Missouri Synod Pastor’s Civil War Diary (July 1863) No.

In 1869 the trustees closed the school, although several members of the faculty reestablished it in Carthage, Illinois as Carthage College.

However, the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod viewed the facilities as a solution for overcrowding at its St Louis Seminary and in 1875, under the leadership of Prof.

Located next to Founder's Hall, the Luther Statue was originally dedicated at the former site of Concordia Seminary on Jefferson Avenue in St Louis in 1903.

In 1904, the Associated Lutheran Charities brought together every synodical agency involved in charity work and convened for their first convention.

Herzberger, the first urban missionary installed in Missouri (and one of the pastors in the 1908 conversation), addressed Synod at Convention, hoping for their blessing on the creation of a Deaconess Home.

In 1917, Die Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Synode von Missouri, Ohio und andern Staaten dropped “Deutsche” from their name and thought that would be enough.

One hundred years and one month ago, on August 17, 1919, the Lutheran Deaconess Association was formed at a meeting held at St Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church in Fort Wayne.

55: Concordia Seminary Architectural Drawing (Clayton Campus, 1922) No.

9: Photograph, New Members, Saint Philip Lutheran Church (Chicago, Illinois, 1924) No.

The building – renamed Die Kaffeemuehle because it resembled a coffee mill – was razed in 1931.

By 1938, the LCMS had officially stopped using German as the Synod’s official language. “It was almost a non-event,” Doctor Rast said.

They held the first meeting of the Seminary Guild less than four months later, on February 1, 1939.

In 1949, ten years after the Seminary Guild started, donation day visitors donated 221 dozen eggs, 97 chickens, 5,000 quarts of home-canned goods, and $1,500 in cash donations. “But what a difference 70 years makes!” she exclaimed, before reading another set of numbers.

Concordia Seminary became a focus of national media attention in 1974 when 45 of its 50 faculty members, together with the vast majority of students, walked out to form a rival institution known as Seminex, or Concordia Seminary in Exile.

In 1975 the Missouri Synod voted to move the Seminary to Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Seminex continued to exist as an educational institution at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago campus through the end of 1987.

More than 2,000 Seminary students have received their first calls into the pastoral ministry in this chapel since 1992.

Today’s history lessons was summarized with quotes ransacked (save for the quote from Deaconess Rast) from the first chapter of “In the Footsteps of Phoebe” by Cheryl D. Naumann (CPH, 2009).

When the series was started in 2012 messages were sent out approximately every two weeks.

In pursuit of its mission and guided by its core values and centering concept, Concordia Seminary has adopted four strategic priorities for 2018-20.

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Happy 175th Anniversary! The Fall 2021 Concordia Historical Institute Quarterly (Volume 94, no.3) contains three articles which commemorate the anniversary of Concordia Theological Seminary, Fort