Capital University is a private accredited liberal arts and research university in Bexley, a suburb of Columbus, Ohio. Capital University was founded on June 3, 1830 as the "Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Ohio" in nearby Canton, Ohio,[4] 40 years before what would become The Ohio State University, securing its title as the oldest university in Central Ohio. It was renamed as Capital University on March 2, 1850, when the Seminary was reformed as The Evangelical Lutheran Theological Seminary of Columbus, Ohio, (E.L.T.S.), (and occasionally still known by the misnomer of "Capital Seminary") when the denomination was renamed as the Evangelical Lutheran Joint Synod of Ohio and Other States and grew into a nationwide church body.