United Lutheran Church in America
The Pennsylvania Ministerium remained a constituent church of the General Council from 1867–1918. In 1918, following the celebration of the 400th anniversary of the Reformation, the three Lutheran church bodies of Eastern America (The General Synod, the General Synod–South, and the General Council) reunited to form the United Lutheran Church in America. This event, while marking a watershed of unity among American Lutherans, also marked the end of the Pennsylvania Ministerium. The ULCA would later join with other American Lutherans, in 1962 in the Lutheran Church in America, and in 1988 in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (which continues to be an active church body and is a direct descendant of the Pennsylvania Ministerium).
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