Henry Melchior

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Henry Melchior was an 18th-century Lutheran pastor and missionary best known as a founder and organizer of the Lutheran Church in colonial America.

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instanceOf Christian missionary
Lutheran pastor
founder of Lutheran Church in America
religious leader
alsoKnownAs Patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America
birthDate 1711-09-06
birthPlace Eimsen
Electorate of Hanover
burialPlace Augustus Lutheran Church cemetery, Trappe, Pennsylvania
child Frederick Muhlenberg
Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg
Peter Muhlenberg
countryOfCitizenship British America
Electorate of Hanover
deathDate 1787-10-07
deathPlace Trappe, Pennsylvania
denomination Lutheran
linked to: Lutheranism
educatedAt University of Göttingen
University of Halle
familyName Muhlenberg
fatherInLaw Conrad Weiser
founded Ministerium of Pennsylvania
givenName Henry
Melchior
languageSpoken English
German
memberOf Francke Foundations
migratedTo British America
Pennsylvania Colony
movement Pietism
notableFor founding the first permanent Lutheran synod in America
organizing the Lutheran Church in colonial America
standardizing Lutheran liturgy in America
occupation church organizer
missionary
pastor
positionHeld president of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania
religion Lutheranism
spouse Anna Maria Weiser
workLocation Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Trappe, Pennsylvania
wrote correspondence on the state of Lutheran churches in America
extensive personal journals
yearOfMigration 1742

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Henry Melchior Muhlenberg hasGivenName Henry Melchior
subject linked to: Muhlenberg