Installation at LCC-LCMS dual parish

A new inter-synod connection was formed between LCC and the LCMS in September 2025, when Rev. Ferreira was installed as pastor of two congregations in Ontario. About an hour apart, Good Shepherd in Amherstburg is an LCC congregation, and Our Saviour’s in Chatham is LCMS, but together they are one parish.

The article below shares the story of this momentous occasion.

CHATHAM, Ont. – On September 21, 2025, Rev. Jeffrey Miskus, Bishop of the LCMS English District, and Rev. Marvin Bublitz, Regional Pastor of LCC’s East Region, installed Rev. Dionatan Ferreira in a service at Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church. Our Saviour’s in Chatham is an English District congregation that has joined with LCC’s Good Shepherd Lutheran Church in Amherstburg, Ontario, to form a cross-synod dual parish.

Rev. Saulo Bledoff of St. John’s (Snyder) Lutheran Church preached, remarking that “it hasn’t been long since he arrived in Canada, yet I heard from Pastor Dionatan how many proofs the people of Chatham and Amherstburg have already given of the famous Canadian kindness. And how overjoyed he is to serve such generous, loving people.”

Rev. Ferreira was born in Espírito Santo, Brazil, in 1997, and was received into the Kingdom of God through Holy Baptism in February 1998. He pursued theological studies at Universidade Luterana do Brasil, receiving his Bachelor of Theology in 2018, and went on to complete his pastoral formation at Seminário Concórdia in São Leopoldo in 2020. From 2021-2025, he served as pastor of Paróquia Cristo para Todos, a dual parish in Bonito, Mato Grosso do Sul, where he carried out his first years of ministry in preaching, catechesis, and the sacramental life of the Church.

In 2025, Rev. Ferreira accepted the call to serve the dual parish of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Amherstburg, and Our Saviour’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, Chatham.

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