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{{Short description|American Lutheran collegiate sorority}}
{{Infobox Fraternity
| name = Phi Beta Chi
| letters = {{lang|grc|ΦΒΧ}}
| crest = Phi_Beta_Chi_Sorority_Crest.jpeg
| image_size = 150px
| founded = {{start date and years ago|1978|03|26}}
| birthplace = [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]]
| affiliation = Independent
| status = Active
| type = Social sorority
| emphasis = Lutheran heritage
| scope = National
| motto = ''{{lang|la|Amor Via Vitae in Christo}}''<br/>Love through Life in Christ
| colors = {{color box|#007FFF}} [[Azure (color)|Azure Blue]] and {{color box|#FFFFFF}} [[White]]
| symbol = Ellipse
| flower = [[Hibiscus syriacus|White Rose of Sharon]]
| philanthropy = [[AbleLight]] and the [[YMCA]]
| publication = ''The Ellipse''
| chapters = 5 active, 24 installed
| address = 267 Timber Drive #2274
| city = [[Garner, North Carolina|Garner]]
| state = [[North Carolina]]
| ZIP code = 27529-9998
| country = United States
| website = {{url|http://www.phibetachi.org/}}
}}

'''Phi Beta Chi''' ('''{{lang|grc|ΦΒΧ}}''') is a national [[sorority]] in the United States  Phi Beta Chi was founded in 1978 on [[Christian values]] and celebrates its [[Lutheran]] heritage.

== History ==
Phi Beta Chi was founded on {{dts|1978|03|26}} at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign]]. At inception, it was formed as a collegiate Christian sorority to support collegiate women socially, spiritually, and academically. Founders were from the Lutheran Church heritage.<ref name="Baird's Manual Online">{{cite web|editor1=William Raimond Baird |editor2=Carroll Lurding |title=Almanac of Fraternities and Sororities (Baird's Manual Online Archive) |url=https://uofi.app.box.com/v/womens-pdf-folder/file/459827984021 |website=Student Life and Culture Archives |publisher=University of Illinois Archives |access-date=5 April 2022 |location=University of Illinois |language=English}} The main archive URL is [https://www.library.illinois.edu/slc/welcome/fraternity-sorority-almanac/ The Baird's Manual Online Archive homepage].</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Torbenson |first1=Craig L. |last2=Parks |first2=Gregory |title=Brothers and Sisters: Diversity in College Fraternities and Sororities |date=2009 |publisher=Fairleigh Dickinson University Press |location=Madison, New Jersey |isbn=9780838641941 |page=230 |oclc=254527263 |access-date=10 April 2022 |language=English |format=Print |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/brothers-and-sisters-diversity-in-college-fraternities-and-sororities/oclc/254527263/editions?referer=di&editionsView=true}}</ref>

== Chapters ==
Approximately 25 chapters have been formed, of which five are active. Active chapters noted in '''bold''', inactive chapters in ''italics''.<ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />

{{FratChapterStart}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Alpha''
| Founded = {{dts|1978|03|26}}  –200x ?
| School = [[University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign]]
| Location = [[Urbana, Illinois]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = '''Beta'''
| Founded = {{dts|1980}}
| School = [[Purdue University]]
| Location = [[West Lafayette, Indiana]]
| Status = Active
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Chapter list">{{cite web |author1=Phi Beta Chi |title=Collegiate Locations |url=https://www.phibetachi.org/collegiate-locations |access-date=30 May 2020}}</ref><ref>Noted among Purdue's student organizations on its [https://web.ics.purdue.edu/~betachi/traditions.htm portal page], accessed 5 April 2022.</ref>
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Gamma''
| Founded = 1982–xxxx ?
| School = [[Eastern Illinois University]]
| Location = [[Charleston, Illinois]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Delta''
| Founded = 198x?–xxxx?
| School = [[University of Missouri]]
| Location = [[Columbia, Missouri]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Epsilon''
| Founded = {{dts|1986}}–xxxx?
| School = [[University of Nebraska at Kearney]]
| Location = [[Kearney, Nebraska]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = '''Zeta'''
| Founded = {{dts|1990}}
| School = [[Texas A&M University]]
| Location = [[College Station, Texas]]
| Status = Active
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Chapter list" /><ref>Noted by Texas A&M among its student organizations on [https://stuactonline.tamu.edu/app/organization/profile/public/id/1041 its official portal page], accessed 5 April 2022. </ref>
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Eta''
| Founded = 199x ?–xxxx?
| School = [[Northern Illinois University]]
| Location = [[DeKalb, Illinois]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Theta''
| Founded = {{dts|1992}}–200x ?
| School = [[University of Nebraska–Lincoln]]
| Location = [[Lincoln, Nebraska]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Iota''
| Founded = {{dts|1994}}–{{dts|2020}} ?
| School = [[Iowa State University]]
| Location = [[Ames, Iowa]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = '''Kappa'''
| Founded = {{dts|2000}}
| School = [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]]
| Location = [[Chapel Hill, North Carolina]]
| Status = Active
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Chapter list" /><ref>Noted as an active chapter on [https://heellife.unc.edu/organization/phi-beta-chi UNC's portal page for the sorority].  Accessed 5 April 2022.</ref>
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Lambda''
| Founded = 200x ?–20xx ?
| School = [[Chapman University]]
| Location = [[Orange, California]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Mu''
| Founded = {{dts|2003}}–20xx ?
| School = [[Wake Forest University]]
| Location = [[Winston-Salem, North Carolina]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Nu''
| Founded = 200x ?–20xx ?
| School = ''[[Concordia College (New York)|Concordia College]]'' <ref>This school closed in 2021.</ref> 
| Location = [[Bronxville, New York]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Xi''
| Founded = {{dts|2002}}–201x ?
| School = [[Sam Houston State University]]
| Location = [[Huntsville, Texas]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Omicron''
| Founded = {{dts|2003}}–20xx ?
| School = [[University of Tennessee at Chattanooga]]
| Location = [[Chattanooga, Tennessee]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Pi''
| Founded = {{dts|2003}} ?–201x ?
| School = [[Texas State University]]
| Location = [[San Marcos, Texas]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Rho''
| Founded = ?
| School = [[University of Southern California]]
| Location = [[Los Angeles]], [[California]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Sigma''
| Founded = ?
| School = [[University of Colorado Colorado Springs]]
| Location = [[Colorado Springs, Colorado]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = '''Tau'''
| Founded = {{dts|2005}} 
| School = [[East Carolina University]]
| Location = [[Greenville, North Carolina]]
| Status = Active
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Chapter list" /><ref>In a naming coincidence, an earlier group called Phi Beta Chi (local) had formed at Greenville in 1957, noted in a [https://collectio.ecu.edu/chronicles/About/Sororities historical profile of Greenville campus sororities], accessed 5 April 2022. That group would affiliate with [[Alpha Phi]] national sorority in 1960, becoming its ''Delta Alpha chapter'', which was active until 2018. See also [https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/38644 the campus newspaper article] of {{dts|1959|11|12}} announcing the affiliation. The later, Lutheran sorority chapter came about from a colony established specifically for that purpose in 2004.</ref>
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Upsilon''
| Founded = {{dts|2008}} ?
| School = [[University of Arizona]]
| Location = [[Tucson, Arizona]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Phi''
| Founded = {{dts|2009}} 
| School = [[University of Delaware]]
| Location = [[Newark, Delaware]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Chi''
| Founded = {{dts|2013}}–2019 ?
| School = [[University of Iowa]]
| Location = [[Iowa City, Iowa]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = ''Psi''
| Founded = {{dts|2015}}–{{dts|2019}}
| School = [[University of Minnesota]]
| Location = [[Minneapolis]], [[Minnesota]]
| Status = Inactive
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Baird's Manual Online" />
}}
{{FratChapter
| Chapter Name = '''Omega'''
| Founded = {{dts|2016}}
| School = [[University of Pittsburgh at Bradford]]
| Location = [[Bradford, Pennsylvania]]
| Status = Active
| Notes = 
| Reference = <ref name="Chapter list" /><ref>Noted on the [https://www.upb.pitt.edu/student-affairs/student-engagement/greek-life Bradford Greek Life portal], accessed 5 April 2022.</ref>
}}
{{FratChapterEnd}}

== See also ==
* [[Christian sorority (fraternities and sororities)]]
* [[List of social sororities and women's fraternities]]

{{Fraternities and Sororities |collapsed}}
{{Christian fraternities and sororities}}

==References==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==

* {{official website|http://www.PhiBetaChi.org}}

[[Category:Student organizations established in 1978]]
[[Category:Fraternities and sororities in the United States]]
[[Category:1978 establishments in Illinois]]
[[Category:Christian student societies in the United States]]
[[Category:Women's organizations based in the United States]]
[[Category:Sororities]]