Concordia Publishing House
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| Parent company | Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod |
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| Founded | 1869 |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Headquarters location | St Louis, Missouri |
| Key people | Dr. Bruce G. Kintz (President & CEO) |
| Publication types | Books, Magazines |
| Nonfiction topics | Lutheran |
| Fiction genres | Christian |
| Number of employees | 250 |
| Official website |
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Concordia Publishing House (CPH), founded in 1869, is the official publishing arm of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod. Headquartered in St Louis, Missouri at 3558 S. Jefferson, CPH publishes the Synod's official magazine, The Lutheran Witness and the Synod's hymnals, including The Lutheran Hymnal (1941), Lutheran Worship (1982), and Lutheran Service Book (2006).[1][2][3] It has published a comprehensive edition of Johann Sebastian Bach's Orgelbüchlein, complete with short analyses of each chorale.[4] It publishes a wide range of resources for churches, schools, and homes and is the publisher of the world's most widely circulated daily devotional resource, Portals of Prayer. Their children's books, known as Arch Books, have been published in millions of copies. Over 850,000 copies of this resource are printed and distributed quarterly. Concordia Publishing House is the oldest publishing company west of the Mississippi River and the world's largest distinctly Lutheran publishing house.
Concordia Publishing House publishes The Lutheran Study Bible — the first study Bible in English to be developed from the ground up with notes from theologians, scholars, and pastors from 12 Lutheran church bodies. The TLSB was released on September 1, 2009 and uses the English Standard Version of the Bible. Concordia released in October 2012 "The Apocrypha: The Lutheran Edition with Notes".
References
External links
- Concordia Publishing House official site
- Company history from the CPH website