History

of

St. Stephen

Lutheran Church

 

1838 - The Beginning - St. John's Lutheran Church becomes the mother church of Lutheranism in Syracuse.

1843 - St. Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church is organized.

1863 - Establishment of Zion Lutheran Church.

1892 - The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer was formed to provide the first English-speaking Lutheran church in the area.

1894 - Mount Tabor Lutheran Church came into being as supporters of an orphans home decided to form a religious body.

1945 - St. John's and St. Peter's Lutheran Church was the result of the union of St. John's and St. Peter's churches.

1956 - The merging of Redeemer and Mount Tabor created The Lutheran Church of the Resurrection.

1965 - The church of St. John's and St. Peter's united with Zion to form St. John's Lutheran Church.

1979 - St. Stephen Lutheran Church was born upon the consolidation of The Lutheran Church of the Resurrection and St. John's Lutheran Church.

1988 - St. Stephen celebrates the 150th anniversary of the founding of St. John's Lutheran Church and of Lutheranism in Syracuse.

Present - St. Stephen continues the tradition of doing God's work in the Syracuse area.

 

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