An organization resulting from a movement toward union which began among the Norwegian Lutheran Synods, 1887. Three synods were united, 1890, forming the United Norwegian Lutheran Church; and, 1917, the Hauge's Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church of America, organized, 1854, and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church in America merged together as one body.
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