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Founded 1998
The congregation: Not every Fort Wayne congregation named for Augustine is Catholic. St. Augustine Lutheran Church was founded in 1998 by an African student at the city's Lutheran seminary, expressly to serve the African refugees then arriving in Fort Wayne; it affiliated with the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod in 2001. A scholarly study of the congregation, published in a peer-reviewed journal of religion and migration, counts seventy-five to one hundred members drawn from seventeen African countries — a single congregation worshipping across the languages and church traditions its members carried from home. It is the clearest single example of what immigration did to Fort Wayne's Lutheran map in the refugee era: the synod that German immigrants built in 1846 being used, a century and a half later, by African ones.
Sources:
- Scholarly profile of St. Augustine Lutheran Church, Fort Wayne (journal article, via thefreelibrary.com) — founded 1998 by an African seminarian, LCMS affiliation 2001, 75–100 members from seventeen African countries.