Minnesota Conference

Its size was substantially reduced years later when Alexandria, Fargo, and Red River Districts became the Red River Valley Conference in 1912, and the Alberta District and Canada Mission field became the Canada Conference in 1913.

[1] With the creation of the Lutheran Church in America (LCA) in 1962, it became known as the Minnesota Synod.

Johan Peter Carlson Boren and laymen Daniel Nelson, Hakan Svedberg, Frans C. Bjorklund, and Ole Paulson were present at the first meeting of the Minnesota Conference held October 7–9, 1858 at Chisago Lake.

[1] In 1862 members of the Minnesota Conference founded Minnesota Elementary School in Red Wing, which was renamed St. Ansgar’s Academy and moved to East Union in 1865.

The institution relocated to Saint Peter in 1876 and was officially recognized as Gustavus Adolphus College.