The second largest, Alpha Nu Omega, was founded three years later and Omega Kappa Psi in 1995.īeta Upsilon Chi was founded in 1985 on the campus of the University of Texas at Austin followed by Gamma Phi Delta in 1988, while Kappa Upsilon Chi was founded in 1993 on the campus of Texas Tech University. The largest, Beta Upsilon Chi, directly led to the founding of four other Christian Greek letter organizations. The fraternity had twelve active chapters during the 2000s, but as of 2016 had only three active chapters.Īt the same time that the historic Christian fraternities were beginning to rebound from their declining numbers, other groups of Christian fraternities developed, with the rise of the Evangelical Christian movement. Down to only three chapters by the 1980s, Sigma Theta Epsilon began chartering new chapters again in 1988. The fraternity became non-denominational in 1968. However, its numbers began to decline at the end of the 1960s. The merged fraternity was initially called Delta Sigma Theta, but the name was changed to Sigma Theta Epsilon in 1949 when a national sorority that was already using the name Delta Sigma Theta threatened legal action.īy the late 1950s, Sigma Theta Epsilon had grown to over twenty chapters. Sigma Theta Epsilon is the result of the merger of two local Methodist-affiliated fraternities in 1941: Phi Tau Theta, founded in 1925, and Sigma Epsilon Theta, founded in 1936 at Indiana University. As of 2020 it had sixteen active chapters. The fraternity suffered a decline in chapters and membership before experiencing extensive national growth starting in 1987. The fraternity had ten active chapters as of 2016.Īlpha Gamma Omega was established in 1927 at UCLA. By 1970, Beta Sigma Psi had grown to eighteen chapters. By 1923, the group regularly participated in campus activities so much so that they began being referred to as the "Concordia Fraternity." On April 17, 1925, incorporation papers were filed for Beta Sigma Psi National Lutheran Fraternity in Springfield, Illinois. In early 1921, it reorganized as the Concordia Club. In the fall of 1920, now with twenty members, the Lutheran Illini League rented a house.
At that time their intention was to meet once or twice a week for religious instruction and discussion on contemporary issues. In the fall of 1919, he organized the Lutheran Illini League with a nucleus of ten students. Frederick William Gustav Stiegemeyer, the son of a Lutheran pastor, who had been entrusted with the spiritual care of Lutheran students at the university. The fraternity had its origins in the concerns of Rev. Over 300 chapters have been established in the United States since 1919, which are organized into six separate districts.Christian fraternities were established in the early part of the 20th century the three largest were Beta Sigma Psi, Alpha Gamma Omega, and Sigma Theta Epsilon, which are still active.īeta Sigma Psi, the oldest Christian fraternity, was founded as a national fraternity for Lutheran students in 1925 at the University of Illinois, home to the largest Greek system in the United States. This is a list of chapters and colonies of Kappa Kappa Psi (ΚΚΨ), national honorary band fraternity.
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