by Joshua Drobena | Nov 18, 2014 | News Releases
The Rev. Wilma S. Kucharek was re-elected November 17 to serve a third six-year term as bishop of the Slovak Zion Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) during our Synod Assembly November 16-23 aboard the Carnival Dream. (The Synod Assembly is...
by Joshua Drobena | Nov 10, 2014 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — The Slovak Zion Synod extends our prayers for God’s blessings on one of our ordained ministers as she begins her retirement. The Rev. Dr. Karen E. Knutson began her retirement on October 1, 2014, after nearly six years of ordained...
by Joshua Drobena | Nov 1, 2014 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — The Slovak Zion Synod welcomes a new pastor to its roster of ordained ministers. The Rev. Thomas S. Drobena received and accepted a Call from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church in Stafford Springs, CT on July 13, 2014. Rev. Drobena was...
by Joshua Drobena | Oct 3, 2014 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — Today marks 15 years since the dedication of the Seminary building where the EBF-UK (Evanjelicka Bohoslovecka Fakulta – Univerzita Komenskeho) is headquartered in Bratislava, Slovakia. After World War I and the dissolution of the...
by Joshua Drobena | Oct 1, 2014 | News Releases
TORRINGTON, CONN (SZS) — On September 13, 2014, Bishop Wilma Kucharek represented the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, with about 4 million members in nearly 10,000 congregations across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region, at the...
