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<p>Lutheranism arrived in North America during the 1600s. The majority of the first Lutherans settled in New Amsterdam (modern-day New York City). In the 1700s, thousands of German Lutherans migrated to Pennsylvania. During the late 1700s and the early 1800s, these people slowly moved westward into what was first the Northwest Territory and then Ohio. Most Ohio Lutherans were German immigrants. Every Ohio community with a sizable German population had a Lutheran congregation. Cincinnati had one of the largest German communities. Ministers conducted most Lutheran services in this city in German rather than English. The Lutherans, like other religious faiths in Ohio, placed a heavy emphasis on education. The Lutherans founded Wittenberg College in 1845 and Capital College in 1850 to educate their brethren. In Ohio, Lutherans remained in the minority among the various religious faiths. Although Lutherans are one of the largest Protestant faiths in the world today, Ohio Lutherans still comprise a relatively small number, and most of these people are descendants of the original German migrants.</p>
==See Also==
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*[[Cincinnati, Ohio]]*[[German OhioansRoman Catholic Church]]
*[[Northwest Territory]]
*[[Ohio]]
*[[Roman Catholic ChurchGerman Ohioans]]*[[Cincinnati, Ohio]]
*[[Wittenberg University]]
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