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The American Lutheran Church (ALC) was a Christian Protestant Denomination in the United States that existed from 1960 to 1987. Its headquarters were in Minneapolis, Minnesota . Upon its formation in 1960, the ALC designated Augsburg Publishing House (est. 1891), also located in Minneapolis, as the church publisher. Theologically, the church was influenced by Pietism , and was slightly more conservative than the Lutheran Church In America (LCA), with which it would eventually merge. The ALC began ordaining women as ministers in December 1970, when the Rev. Barbara Andrews became the second woman ordained as a Lutheran minister in the United States. The first Native American woman to become a Lutheran minister in the United States, the Rev. Marlene Whiterabbit Helgemo , was ordained by the ALC in July 1987. FORMATION The American Lutheran Church was formed in 1960 out of the following Lutheran church bodies:
MERGER ]] On 1 January 1988 , the American Lutheran Church ceased to exist when it, along with the Lutheran Church In America and the Association Of Evangelical Lutheran Churches , joined together to form the Evangelical Lutheran Church In America . At the time of the merger, the ALC was the third-largest Lutheran church body in the United States, behind the Lutheran Church In America and the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod . The ALC brought approximately 2.25 million members into the ELCA. Twelve ALC congregations that did not want to participate in the merger formed the American Association Of Lutheran Churches , which has since grown to 87 congregations. BISHOPS OF THE ALC
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