The Lutheran Confessional Synod (LCS) was a

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church, characterized by a strict interpretation of the

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and a historical liturgy. Organized in 1994, when Christ Lutheran Church in

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, broke away from the

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, it initially declared doctrinal agreement with the

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and the

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, but broke fellowship with those two synods on June 14, 1997, because of differences in the doctrine of the ministry and the Lord's Supper. The LCS organized the Johann Gerhard Institute (a denominational publishing house) and St. Anselm Theological Seminary in 1996. The LCS' first bishop was the Rev. Randy L. DeJaynes, consecrated to that position on October 7, 1994. As of 2009, stating a "desire to return to the Apostolic faith," some former LCS clergy were chrismated in the

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, while others entered the

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. At least one is now a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Diocese of North America. By 2012, it was reported that the church body had disbanded.

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