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Elizabeth Amy Eaton [1] (born April 2, 1955) is the fourth Presiding Bishop, and the first female Presiding Bishop, [2] of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). She was first elected to this post in 2013 and was re-elected for a second term in 2019. Prior to becoming presiding bishop, she served as bishop of the Northeastern Ohio ...
Robert Guy Erwin (born 1958, Pawhuska, Oklahoma) is an American Lutheran bishop. [1] He was elected in 2013 to a six-year term as bishop of the Southwest California Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). [2] Since August 2020, he has served as president of the United Lutheran Seminary in Philadelphia. [3]
Also in 2011, Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson participated in the 'It Gets Better' campaign, recording a YouTube video [43] and contributing to the book. [44] The ELCA Youth Ministry page also linked to the "It Gets Better" campaign and The Trevor Project. [45]
The Rev. Greg Busboom, pastor of St. John's Lutheran (ELCA) Church, will be installed bishop of the synod serving central and southern Illinois.
The ELCA is headed by a presiding bishop, who is elected by the Churchwide Assembly for a six-year term (it was a four-year term until 1995). To date, four people have been elected to the position of presiding bishop of the ELCA. Herbert W. Chilstrom served as the first presiding bishop from 1987 to 1995.
In 1978, she received a master of divinity degree from Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia [3] [4] and was ordained as a minister. [5] She was elected in 2002 to a six-year term as bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America's (ELCA) Upstate New York Synod. She was the sixth woman to be elected as a synod bishop in the ELCA.
Leonard H. Bolick is a prelate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America who served as the bishop of the North Carolina Evangelical Lutheran Synod from 1997 to 2015. [1] Bolick is known for seeking ecumenical reconciliation and improving relations with the Roman Catholic Church in North Carolina while he has been bishop. [2]
The ELCA, which is the largest Lutheran denomination in the United States, first began to ordain women in 1970. [2] [9] [10] When Larson was elected Bishop, she became the second female Lutheran bishop in the world, and the first in North America. Additionally, Larson was the first to be elected by a synod. [11]