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Currently the LCMS is officially congregational in structure. However, the President wields much power, much closer in line with a Bishop than a typical president of a congregational association. Would you support changing to an officially episcopal polity with a Bishop and dioceses or do you think the scripture supports a congregational structure as the LCMS has now? If you support it do you think that it is necessary to have valid Apostolic Succession, or is that a nicety, but not a requirement to you? I believe that the LCMS could receive valid AS through their full altar and pulpit fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Latvia, if they desired it.