The law school has several prominent faculty members and superior bar passage rates. Like Capital University, Trinity Lutheran Seminary was founded in 1830, and is now a part of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Trinity was initially called the German Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio, then renamed to the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary (ELTS). The original campus was in Canton, Ohio, but soon moved to Columbus. When the old Joint Synod of Ohio merged in 1930, it joined the first American Lutheran Church bringing its educational institutions, and then a subsequent union of a second The American Lutheran Church in 1960. In 1974, the Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary merged with the Hamma Divinity School at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, which itself dated to 1845, and was now affiliated with the old Lutheran Church in America (LCA), thus forming the newly merged Trinity Lutheran Seminary. The combined ALC / LCA seminary opened its doors in 1978, predating the later union of its denominations by a decade. Trinity is a fully accredited school of theology, and remains affiliated with the ELCA. which was a merger finally of the older ALC and LCA in 1988. Bexley Hall is an Episcopal Church U.S.A. theological seminary founded in 1823 by Philander Chase, the Bishop of Ohio. Most of the East Coast Episcopal leadership did not see the need for another seminary, and denied financial support to Bishop Chase. So he went to England and appealed to his Anglican / Church of England colleagues, and won their overwhelming support. A victorious Chase returned to Gambier, Ohio, and founded Kenyon College, an Episcopal liberal arts college. In conjunction with Kenyon, he opened the seminary on the same campus. Still in Gambier, Bexley Hall was eventually identified as a separate institution and named after one of Kenyon College's biggest benefactors, the retired English Chancellor of the Exchequer, coincidentally known as Lord Bexley. Bexley Hall remained affiliated with Kenyon College until 1968, when it broke ties with Kenyon and relocated to Rochester, New York, forming a new association with the Baptist seminary Colgate Rochester Crozer Divinity School. In 1998, Bexley Hall returned to its native Ohio, sharing a campus with Trinity Lutheran Seminary, also coincidentally located in Bexley. The aptly named seminary remains a part of the Episcopal Church USA.