List of Lutheran clergy
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List of Lutheran clergy is a listing of Lutheran clergy to allow for additional information about Lutheran clergy that Category:Lutheran clergy may not handle.
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[edit] Lists of Lutheran Bishops and Archbishops
- Presidents of the Lutheran World Federation
- List of bishops of Lund (Earlier names on the list are Catholic)
- Bishop of Iceland
- Lutheran bishops of Hólar
- Lutheran bishops of Skálholt
- Lutheran Bishops of Turku and Archbishops of Turku and Finland
- Bishops of Helsinki
- Post-Reformation Archbishops of Uppsala
- List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
- Leading persons and bishops in Saxony
- Presidents & Bishops of the Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore
- Evangelical Lutheran Synod Presidents
- Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod Presidents, past and present
[edit] Additional Lutheran leaders
- Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia. de:Christoph Kähler
- Margot Käßmann - Bishop for the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover.
- Jaan Kiivit, Jr - Former Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
- Johan Kõpp - Estonian Lutheran bishop who fled to Sweden after the Soviet takeover.et:Johan Kõpp
- Ishmael Noko - General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.
- Kuno Pajula - Former Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
- Andres Põder - The current Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
[edit] List of clergy
[edit] Academics
- Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan.[1]
- Georg M. Grossman - Founder of Wartburg College.[2]
- Stephan Ludwig Roth - Transylvanian educationist.[3]
- John Tietjen - Noted for the Seminex controversy.[4]
[edit] Activists
- Robert Graetz - Possibly the only white member of the Montgomery Improvement Association.[5]
- Sumowood Harris - Liberian peace activist.
- Roland Weisselberg - Critic of the former East Germany who later committed Self-immolation as a protest against the spread of Islam.[6]
[edit] Explorers and colonizers
- Gotthard Fritzsche - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.[7]
- Rasmus Jensen - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
- August Kavel - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.[8]
- Martin Stephan - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated.[9]
[edit] Missionaries
- John Campanius - Missionary to the Lenape.
- Hans Egede - "Apostle of Greenland."[10]
- Onesimos Nesib - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo and did missionary work in Africa.[11]
- Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India.[12]
[edit] Politicians
- Kjell Magne Bondevik - Former Prime Minister of Norway.
- Francis Hoffmann - Once Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and also wrote under a pen-name.[13]
- Antti Johannes Rantamaa - Finnish chaplain who served in the Parliament of Finland.
[edit] Theologians
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A founding member of the Confessing Church who was executed by Nazi Germany.[14]
- Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.[15]
- Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.[16]
- Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.[17]
- Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LC-MS.[18]
- Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.[19]
- Gunnar Rosendal - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.[20]
[edit] Writers
- Caspar Aquila - A writer of tracts.
- Johann Ernst Glück - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
- Paul Henkel - Tract writer.[21]
- Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten - German poet.[22]
- Eduard Mörike - German Romantic poet.
- Johann Adolf Schlegel - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets.[23]
[edit] Web sources
- ^ Concordia University profile
- ^ Wartburg College
- ^ Primăria Municipiului Mediaş » Acasă
- ^ ELCA site
- ^ Wittenberg.edu
- ^ Times Online
- ^ Christian Cyclopedia
- ^ German Australia
- ^ Christian Cyclopedia
- ^ 1911 Encyclopedia
- ^ Dictionary of African Christian Biography
- ^ CSAAME article
- ^ Wisconsin Historical Society
- ^ BBC
- ^ Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
- ^ LC-MS obituary
- ^ article
- ^ Concordia
- ^ Time Magazine
- ^ The Catholic Movement in the Swedish Church
- ^ LCMS's Christian Cyclopedia
- ^ The Baltic and the North Seas By David Kirby
- ^ Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry in the United States
