Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod (ELCA)
Bishop Bishop A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the... :	Rev. Martin D. Wells
Vice President:	Susan Berg
Affiliation:	Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Evangelical Lutheran Church in America The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4,543,037 baptized members, with 2,527,941 of them... Region 1
Congregations:	105
Mailing Address:	314 S. Spruce Street, Suite A Spokane, WA 99201-5823
Official Website:	http://www.ewaidsynod.org/home.html

The Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod (ELCA) is a synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4,543,037 baptized members, with 2,527,941 of them...

 (ELCA). It encompasses congregations in the eastern portion of Washington state, Idaho

Idaho

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 and 2 congregations in western Wyoming, and supports congregational mission throughout this territory.

On June 1999, The Rev

The Reverend

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. Martin D. Wells was elected as Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 of the synod. He also serves as an officer of the synod council which is the governing body between assemblies. It is composed of the Bishop and 29 members elected from each of the 12 synodical geographic regions called clusters. There are one-hundred and five Lutheran congregations in the synod. The 2007 budget for the synod is $992,000, raised as benevolence

Benevolence

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 dollars sent by congregations.

The ELCA has partnered its synods with other regions throughout the world and the companion synod for Eastern Washington and Idaho is the Ulanga

Ulanga

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-Kilombero

Kilombero

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 Diocese (ELCT

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania is the federation of Lutheran Churches in the African nation of Tanzania. In 1938, seven Lutheran churches founded a federation known as the Federation of Lutheran Churches in Tanganyika...

) in southern Tanzania

Tanzania

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.