Welcome

The LutheranSynodSeminary website began in 2010 as an Archival Project to digitally preserve content for the 150th Anniversary of the Eastern Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada and the 100th Anniversary of the Synod's school known then as Waterloo Lutheran Seminary, now called Martin Luther University College. 

In 2026, the site continues as a space Archivist Karen Kuhnert uses to share stories of Canadian and world Lutheran encounter. This image is of the Maranatha Congregation study trip to St. Catharine's in 2015.

Many of the images on this site extend from Lutheran, Ecumenical and Interfaith encounters and they were made available to Pastors Karen (Rev., MDiv.) and Peter Kuhnert (Rev. Dr., MD. MDiv). 

Since 2009 Rev. Karen Kuhnert has served as Archivist for the Eastern Synod, ELCIC and the 150-100 Anniversary Project. Rev. Karen is also a  Principal in the Remembering Today for the Church of Tomorrow Canadian Lutheran History Project. In 2025, two publications of the Project were awarded Honours by the Concordia Historical Institute in Saint Louis for "significant contributions to literature and research in the field of Lutheran archives and history in North America. 

Rev. Karen Kuhnert is pastor to the people of St. Pauls Lutheran Church in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada.

Photo Credit: AlbinHillert/WCC

In this November 2025 image is shown the chapel for Vespers during the 6th Patriarchate Network International Conference on Pastoral Health held in Rhodes, Greece. Shown here is Network Founder and Convenor, Protopresbyter of the Ecumenical Throne, Father Stavros and Mrs. Kofinas, and presenters from the WCC Commission on Health and Healing including Rev. Dr. Peter Kuhnert, along with Rev. Karen Kuhnert. 

Within this website, readers will find stories and images from congregational life to global Lutheranism that connect to Canadian contexts. 

This image is from the "Five Photo Challenge" of the 2011 Anniversary. 

Image courtesy of St. John's Lutheran Church in Ottawa.