Bible Translators Theologians The Franckean Synod was a Lutheran church body in North America in the 19th century.
The Synod was formed by Lutheran pastors in New York who were dissatisfied with their church's position on slavery in 1837.
The Synod was named in memory of the Pietist leader of the Foundation at the University of Halle, August Hermann Francke.
The Franckean Synod was noted for its socially progressive views: it was strongly abolitionist, pro-temperance, and pacifist.
[1] The Franckean Synod also ordained the first black Lutheran pastor, Daniel Payne, who later became a bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church and the president of Wilberforce University.