Augustana Lutheran

noun

Au·​gus·​tana Lutheran

ˈȯgəˌstanə-

: a member of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church organized chiefly by Swedish immigrants in the midwestern U.S. in 1860

Word History

Etymology

New Latin Augustana (in Confessio Augustana Augsburg Confession, famous Lutheran document of 1530), from Medieval Latin, feminine of Augustanus of Augsburg

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