The <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_in_America" id="mwAtM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Evangelical Lutheran Church in America">Evangelical Lutheran Church in America</a> comes into existence, creating the largest <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheranism" id="mwAtQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lutheranism">Lutheran</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_denomination" id="mwAtU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Religious denomination">denomination</a> in the United States.<sup about="#mwt455" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-89"}}' id="cite_ref-89" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./January_1#cite_note-89" id="mwAtY" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 89;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwAtc">[89]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-89"><cite about="#mwt452" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFGassmannOldenburg2011">Gassmann, Günther; Oldenburg, Mark W. (10 October 2011). <a class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SLlKBAAAQBAJ&amp;pg=PA142" id="mwEBA" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow"><i id="mwEBE">Historical Dictionary of Lutheranism</i></a>. Scarecrow Press. pp.<span id="mwEBI" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>142–. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwEBM" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwEBQ" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-7482-4" id="mwEBU" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8108-7482-4"><bdi id="mwEBY">978-0-8108-7482-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt452" class="Z3988" id="mwEBc" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Historical+Dictionary+of+Lutheranism&amp;rft.pages=142-&amp;rft.pub=Scarecrow+Press&amp;rft.date=2011-10-10&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8108-7482-4&amp;rft.aulast=Gassmann&amp;rft.aufirst=G%C3%BCnther&amp;rft.au=Oldenburg%2C+Mark+W.&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSLlKBAAAQBAJ%26pg%3DPA142&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AJanuary+1"></span></span>