 Passavant accepted the repeated calls of a struggling Pittsburgh congregation, and after moving to that city, organized the Pittsburgh Synod.By its second meeting, he had already established six Sunday schools, some with the help of other Protestant clergy.Pastor Passavant married Eliza Walter on May 1, 1845, shortly after his friend Krauth married, despite a fire in Pittsburgh's business district three weeks earlier which also devastated many parishioners.