Augustana Church had only 600,000 members when the Lutheran Church in America was formed, its influence on its successor bodies has been significant as they incorporated many of Augustana's emphases on mission, ecumenism, and social service. Herbert W. Chilstrom, the first presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, was a graduate of the Augustana Theological Seminary and was ordained to Augustana's ministry in 1958. Included among the Augustana-founded congregations is Mount Olivet Lutheran Church in Minneapolis, Minnesota, the largest Lutheran congregation in the world with over 13,000 members. Presidents Tuve Hasselquist 1860–1870 Jonas Swensson 1870–1873 Eric Norelius 1874–1881 Erland Carlsson 1881–1888 Sven Peter August Lindahl 1888–1891 P. J. Svärd 1891–1899 Eric Norelius 1899–1911 L. A. Johnston 1911–1918 Gustaf Albert Brandelle 1918–1935 Petrus Olaf Bersell 1935–1951 Oscar A. Benson 1951–1959 Malvin H. Lundeen 1959–1962 Conferences Final statistics of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church (December 31, 1961). References Further reading Anderson, Philip J., "From Compulsion to Persuasion: Voluntary Religion and the Swedish Immigrant Experience," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 66#1 (2015), 3-23. Arden, G. Everett (1958) Half a Million Swedes (America's Lutherans. Omar Bonderud and Charles Lutz, editors. Columbus OH: Wartburg Press. pages 28–30). Blanck, Dag, "Two Churches, One Community: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, 1860–1920," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly 63 (April–July 2012), 158–73. Blanck, Dag. The Creation of an Ethnic Identity: Being Swedish American in the Augustana Synod, 1860-1917, (2007) 256 pp ) Cimino, Richard, ed. Lutherans Today: American Lutheran Identity in the Twenty-First Century (Eerdmans, 2003). Erling, Maria Elizabeth, and Mark Granquist. The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America (Augsburg Books, 2008). Follstad, Virginia (2007) The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church in Print (Plymouth, United Kingdom: Scarecrow Press) Granquist, Mark, "Parallel Paths: The Augustana Synod and the Covenant Church, 1920–1945," Swedish-American Historical Quarterly, 63 (April–July 2012), 174–86. Granquist, Mark (2008) The Augustana Story: Shaping Lutheran Identity in North America (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Hultgren, Arland. "Augustana and Lutheran identity in America." Augustana Heritage (2012). online Olson, Oscar W. The Augustana Lutheran Church in America: Pioneer Period, 1846-1860 (1950) full text online also online review Stephenson, George M. The Religious Aspects of Swedish Immigration (1932). Histoiography Granquist, Mark Alan. "Five American Lutheran Histories." Lutheran Quarterly 12.2 (1998): 197-209. External links Augustana Heritage group The Lutherans in America; a story of struggle, progress, influence and marvelous growth. The Augustana Synod : a brief review of its history, 1860-1910. Evangelical Lutheran Church