[3] The institution's primary mission is to train pastors, deaconesses, missionaries, chaplains, and church leaders for the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod (LCMS).

However, it does offer a program by which women may be rostered as deaconesses (a category of "ministers of religion" within the LCMS).

For many years the nationally broadcast Lutheran Hour originated from this LCMS radio station.

Dedicated on November 15, 1992, the Chapel of St. Timothy and St. Titus serves as the house of worship for the Concordia Seminary community.

A copy of the 17th-century Calov Bible that was owned by Johann Sebastian Bach is also in the collection.

[6] Located next to Founder's Hall, the Luther Statue was originally dedicated at the former site of Concordia Seminary on Jefferson Avenue in St. Louis in 1903.

The statue in Germany is located where Martin Luther made his "Here I Stand" speech at the Diet of Worms.

[11] Concordia Seminary became a focus of national media attention in 1974, when 45 of its 50 faculty members, together with the vast majority of students, walked out of campus to form a rival institution known as Seminex, or Concordia Seminary in Exile.

During this same period, in 1975, Concordia was added to a list of censured institutions by the American Association of University Professors.

It suffered a gradually declining enrollment over the course of the late 1970s, with the last St. Louis commencement being held in May 1983.

It continued to exist as an educational institution at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago campus through the end of 1987.