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Also called LCMS.
The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, the second-largest Lutheran body in the United States. More conservative than the ELCA: does not ordain women, practices close communion, and holds to biblical inerrancy. The two are not in full communion.
In Church and ministry — Polity, offices, and the ELCA's relationships.
