Lists of Lutheran Bishops and Archbishops

• Presidents of the Lutheran World Federation
• Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• Presidents, Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS)
• Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921–1976)
• List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar
• Bishops of Hamburg, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008)
• Bishops of Hamburg-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Hamburg, 2008– to date)
• State bishops, Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover
• Bishops of Helsinki
• Lutheran bishops of Hólar
• Bishops of Holstein-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Lübeck, 1977–2008)
• Bishops of Iceland
  Bishop of Iceland
  List of the Lutheran bishops of Iceland:* 1801-1823: Geir Vídalín* 1824-1845: Steingrímur Jónsson* 1846-1866: Helgi G. Thordersen* 1866-1889: Pétur Pétursson* 1889-1908: Hallgrímur Sveinsson* 1908-1916: Þórhallur Bjarnason* 1917-1939: Jón Helgason...
  
  
• List of bishops of Lund (Earlier names on the list are Catholic)
• Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore
• Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
• Bishops of Schleswig, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein (1925–1976), North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977–2008)
• Bishops of Schleswig and Holstein, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Schleswig, 2008– to date)
• Bishops, Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK)
• Lutheran bishops of Skálholt
• Lutheran Bishops of Turku and Archbishops of Turku and Finland
• Lutheran Archbishops of Uppsala
• Presidents, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
• Leading persons and state bishops, Evangelical State Church in Württemberg

Additional Lutheran leaders

• Johan Arnd Aasgaard
  Johan Arnd Aasgaard
  Johan Arnd Aasgaard was an American Lutheran church leader.-Biography:Johan Arnd Aasgaard was born in Albert Lea, Minnesota. He was educated at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota . He graduated from the United Church Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota...
  
   - President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
  Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)
  The Evangelical Lutheran Church or ELC was formed in 1917 as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America .-Background:The Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was formed by merger of the Hauge Synod , the Norwegian Synod , and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America...
  
  
• Erland Carlsson
  Erland Carlsson
  Erland Carlsson was a Swedish-American Lutheran Minister. He was one of the founders and served as President of the Augustana Lutheran Synod.-Background:...
  
   - One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod
• Gottlieb Bender Christiansen
  Gottlieb Bender Christiansen
  Gottlieb Bender Christiansen was an American Lutheran Minister who served as President at Trinity Seminary in Blair, Nebraska and was the first president of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church.-Background:...
  
    - Founding President of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Claus Lauritz Clausen
  Claus Lauritz Clausen
  Claus Lauritz Clausen was an American pioneer Lutheran minister, church leader, military chaplain and politician.-Biography:...
  
    – President of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
  Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
  Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America usually called the Conference was a Lutheran church body that existed in the United States from 1870 to 1890, when it merged into the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America....
  
  
• Elling Eielsen
  Elling Eielsen
  Elling Eielsen was an American minister and Lutheran Church leader.-Background:Eielsen was born on the farm of Sunve in Voss, Norway and brought up in the religious tradition of Hans Nielsen Hauge...
  
   - Founder of The Eielsen Synod
  Eielsen Synod
  The Eielsen Synod was a Lutheran church body. It was founded in 1846 at Jefferson Prairie Settlement, Wisconsin by a group of Haugean Lutherans led by Elling Eielsen.-Background:...
  
   (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
• Lars Paul Esbjörn
  Lars Paul Esbjörn
  Lars Paul Esbjörn was a Swedish-American Lutheran clergyman, academic and church leader. Esbjörn was a founder of Augustana College and of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church.-Background:...
  
  - One of the founders Augustana Synod and Augustana College
  Augustana College (Illinois)
  Augustana College is a private liberal arts college located in Rock Island, Illinois, United States. The college enrolls approximately 2,500 students. Covering of hilly, wooded land, Augustana is adjacent to the Mississippi River...
  
  
• Tuve Hasselquist
  Tuve Hasselquist
  Tuve Nils Hasselquist was a Swedish American Lutheran minister and church leader.-Biography:Hasselquist was born in Hasselröd, Osby Municipality in Skåne County, Sweden....
  
  - Founding President of the Augustana Synod
• Ulrik Vilhelm Koren - President of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
• Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia. :de:Christoph Kähler
• Margot Käßmann
  Margot Käßmann
  Margot Käßmann is a Lutheran theologian and was Landesbischöfin of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Hanover in Germany. On 28 October 2009, she was elected to lead the Evangelical Church in Germany, a federation of Protestant church bodies in Germany...
  
   - Bishop for the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover.
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr
  Jaan Kiivit, Jr
  Jaan Kiivit, Jr. was the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia from 1994 until 2005....
  
   - 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
  Ishmael Noko
  Ishmael Noko is a southern African Lutheran priest who has been the General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation since 1995.-Biography:...
  
   - General Secretary of the Lutheran World Federation
  Lutheran World Federation
  The Lutheran World Federation is a global communion of national and regional Lutheran churches headquartered in the Ecumenical Centre in Geneva, Switzerland. The federation was founded in the Swedish city of Lund in the aftermath of the Second World War in 1947 to coordinate the activities of the...
  
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• Eric Norelius
  Eric Norelius
  Eric Norelius was a Swedish-American Lutheran minister, church leader and author.-Background:Eric Norelius was born on October 26, 1833 in Norrbäck, Hassela parish, in Nordanstig Municipality, Gävleborg County, Sweden. He received his early education at Hudiksvall's allmänna läroverk...
  
  - One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod
• Kuno Pajula
  Kuno Pajula
  Kuno Pajula was the Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia from 1987 until 1994 and is now Archbishop emeritus.- Links :*...
  
   - Former Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Andres Põder
  Andres Põder
  Andres Põder is the current Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia. He was elected in November 2004 and took office in February 2005. The Archbishop's See is located at St Mary's Cathedral, Tallinn.-References:...
  
   - The current Archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Hans Gerhard Stub
  Hans Gerhard Stub
  Hans Gerhard Stub was an American Lutheran theologian and church leader. He served as Bishop of the Norwegian Lutheran Church in America.-Background:...
  
   - First Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)
  Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States)
  The Evangelical Lutheran Church or ELC was formed in 1917 as the Norwegian Lutheran Church of America .-Background:The Norwegian Lutheran Church of America was formed by merger of the Hauge Synod , the Norwegian Synod , and the United Norwegian Lutheran Church of America...
  
  
• Jonas Swensson
  Jonas Swensson
  Jonas Swensson was a noted minister of the Lutheran Church and president of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church....
  
   - Former President of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
  Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church
  The Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church was a Lutheran church body in the United States that was one of the churches that merged into the Lutheran Church in America in 1962...
  
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Academics

• Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer
  Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer
  Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer is a Lutheran educator and minister with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod denomination in the United States. From 2005 to 2009, he was the president of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan and was previously interim president. He presently serves as Senior Pastor of...
  
   - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan
  Concordia University is a private liberal arts university in Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States. Its campus sits on the banks of the Huron River, about ten minutes outside downtown Ann Arbor. Concordia is affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod and is a college of the Concordia...
  
  
• Kristian Anker
  Kristian Anker
  Kristian Anker was a Lutheran minister who served as the first president of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College.-Background:...
  
   - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College
  Dana College
  Dana College is a now defunct baccalaureate college located in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 25 miles northwest of Omaha, and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley....
  
  
• Anton Marius Andersen
  Anton Marius Andersen
  Anton Marius Andersen was an American Lutheran minister and the founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College.-Background:...
  
   - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College
  Dana College
  Dana College is a now defunct baccalaureate college located in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 25 miles northwest of Omaha, and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley....
  
  
• Georg M. Grossman
  Georg M. Grossman
  Georg M. Grossman was a German-American Lutheran academic and church leader.-Background:...
  
   - Founder of Wartburg College
  Wartburg College
  Wartburg College is a selective four-year liberal arts college of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America located in Waverly, Iowa. Wartburg West is in Denver, Colorado....
  
  
• Theodore Marcus Hansen
  Theodore Marcus Hansen
  Theodore Marcus Hansen was a Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator, and church leader. Ordained as a pastor in the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in 1915, Theodore Marcus served eleven Lutheran congregations...
  
   - President of Dana College
  Dana College
  Dana College is a now defunct baccalaureate college located in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 25 miles northwest of Omaha, and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley....
  
   and Trinity Seminary
• John N. Kildahl
  John N. Kildahl
  John Nathan Kildahl was an American Lutheran church minister, author and educator.-Background:Kildahl was born in Beitstaden parish , Nord-Trøndelag, Norway. Kildahl emigrated as a boy from Norway to rural Goodhue County, Minnesota. He was educated at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa...
  
   - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...
  
  
• Peter Laurentius Larsen
  Peter Laurentius Larsen
  Peter Laurentius Larsen was a Norwegian-American educator and Lutheran theological leader. He was the founding president of Luther College.-Background:...
  
   - Founding president of Luther College
  Luther College (Iowa)
  Luther College is a four-year, residential liberal arts institution of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, located in Decorah, Iowa, USA...
  
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• Thorbjorn N. Mohn
  Thorbjorn N. Mohn
  Thorbjorn N. Mohn was an American Lutheran church leader and the first president of St. Olaf College.-Background:...
  
   - Founding president of St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...
  
  
• Bernt Julius Muus
  Bernt Julius Muus
  Bernt Julius Muus was a Norwegian-American Lutheran minister and church leader. He helped found St. Olaf College.-Background:Muus was born in the parish Snaasen in Throndhjems Stift in Snåsa, Nord-Trøndelag, Norway...
  
   - Founder of St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College
  St. Olaf College is a coeducational, residential, four-year, private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota, United States. It was founded in 1874 by a group of Norwegian-American immigrant pastors and farmers, led by Pastor Bernt Julius Muus. The college is named after Olaf II of Norway,...
  
  
• Robert Preus
  Robert Preus
  Robert David Preus was an American Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president.-Biography:...
  
   - Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president
• Stephan Ludwig Roth
  Stephan Ludwig Roth
  Stephan Ludwig Roth was a Transylvanian Saxon intellectual, pedagogue and Lutheran pastor....
  
   - Transylvanian educationist.
• Jacob Tanner
  Jacob Tanner
  Jacob Tanner was a Norwegian American Lutheran minister, educator and religious author. He spent most of his life in the United States and became a naturalized citizen.-Biography:...
  
   - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
• John Tietjen
  John Tietjen
  John Tietjen was a Lutheran clergyman, theologian, and national church leader in the United States. He is best known both for his role in the Seminex controversy which roiled the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod in the mid-1970s, and for his efforts on behalf of Lutheran unity that resulted in...
  
   - Noted for the Seminex
  Seminex
  Seminex is the widely used abbreviation for Concordia Seminary in Exile . An institution for the training of Lutheran ministers, Seminex existed from 1974 to 1987. It was formed after a walk-out by dissident faculty and students of Concordia Seminary in St...
  
   controversy.
• Peter Sørensen Vig
  Peter Sørensen Vig
  Peter Sørensen Vig , commonly known as P. S. Vig, was a Danish American pastor, educator, and historian in the Lutheran church...
  
   - President of Trinity Seminary and the president of Dana College
  Dana College
  Dana College is a now defunct baccalaureate college located in Blair, Nebraska. Its rural 150-acre campus is approximately 25 miles northwest of Omaha, and overlooks a portion of the Missouri River Valley....
  
  

Activists

• K. G. William Dahl
  K. G. William Dahl
  K. G. William Dahl was a Lutheran pastor, author and social advocate.-Background:K. G. William Dahl was born in Osby, Skåne in Sweden. Both Dahl's father and grandfather had been Lutheran ministers of the Church of Sweden parish. His brother was the composer Viking Dahl. K. G. William Dahl...
  
   - Lutheran minister, author and social advocate. Founder of Bethphage Mission.
• Robert Graetz
  Robert Graetz
  Robert S. Graetz is a Lutheran clergyman who, as the white pastor of a black congregation in Montgomery, Alabama, openly supported the Montgomery Bus Boycott, a landmark event of the U.S. civil rights movement.-Role in civil rights movement:...
  
   - Possibly the only white member of the Montgomery Improvement Association
  Montgomery Improvement Association
  The Montgomery Improvement Association was formed on December 5, 1955 by black ministers and community leaders in Montgomery, Alabama. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr...
  
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• Sumowood Harris
  Sumowood Harris
  Rt. Rev. Dr. Sumowood Harris is a Liberian Lutheran bishop. He served as the president of the Liberian Council of Churches and is a peace activist.-References:...
  
   - Liberian peace activist.
• Bernt B. Haugan
  Bernt B. Haugan
  Bernt B. Haugan was an American Lutheran minister, politician, and temperance leader.-Biography:Bernt Benjaminsen Haugan was born at Haugan vestre in Skogn parish in Levanger municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. He and his parents and siblings left for America on April 3, 1872...
  
   - American minister, politician, and temperance leader.
• William A. Passavant - Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States.
• Roland Weisselberg
  Roland Weisselberg
  Roland Weisselberg was a retired Lutheran Vicar who received public attention by his self-immolation in a German monastery....
  
   - Critic of the former East Germany who later committed Self-immolation
  Self-immolation
  Self-immolation refers to setting oneself on fire, often as a form of protest or for the purposes of martyrdom or suicide. It has centuries-long traditions in some cultures, while in modern times it has become a type of radical political protest...
  
   as a protest against the spread of Islam
  Islam
  Islam . The most common are and .   : Arabic pronunciation varies regionally. The first vowel ranges from ~~. The second vowel ranges from ~~~...
  
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Explorers and colonizers

• Gotthard Fritzsche
  Gotthard Fritzsche
  Gotthard Daniel Fritzsche[p] was one of the first founding pastors of Lutheranism to emigrate to Australia. He was born in Liebenwerda, Germany, and migrated to Australia in 1841. From 1842-1863, he was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Church...
  
   - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
• Rasmus Jensen
  Rasmus Jensen
  Rasmus Jensen was a Danish Lutheran priest and the first Lutheran cleric in Canada.Little is known about the life of Jensen, not even the parish where he served as pastor, although his diary during the expedition provides some information...
  
   - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
• August Kavel
  August Kavel
  August Ludwig Christian Kavel . Pastor Kavel was a founder of Lutheranism in Australia.-Training and Early Ministry:Kavel was born in Berlin, Germany 1798...
  
   - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
• Martin Stephan
  Martin Stephan
  Martin Stephan was pastor of St. John Lutheran Church in Dresden, Germany during the early 19th century. He organized the Saxon emigration to the United States in the early 19th century.- Biography :...
  
   - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated.
• Reorus Torkillus
  Reorus Torkillus
  Reorus Torkillus was the first Lutheran clergyman to settle in what would become the United States.-Biography:Torkillus was born at Mölndal, near Gothenburg, Sweden in 1608. He studied for the ministry at Lidköping and Skara in Sweden...
  
   - First Lutheran clergyman to settle in New Sweden
  New Sweden
  New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement. New Sweden included parts of the present-day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....
  
  

Missionaries

• Johan Campanius
  John Campanius
  John Campanius , also known as John Campanius Holm, was a Swedish Lutheran clergyman assigned to the New Sweden colony.-Background:...
  
   - Assigned to New Sweden
  New Sweden
  New Sweden was a Swedish colony along the Delaware River on the Mid-Atlantic coast of North America from 1638 to 1655. Fort Christina, now in Wilmington, Delaware, was the first settlement. New Sweden included parts of the present-day American states of Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania....
  
  , Missionary to the Lenape
  Lenape
  The Lenape are an Algonquian group of Native Americans of the Northeastern Woodlands. They are also called Delaware Indians. As a result of the American Revolutionary War and later Indian removals from the eastern United States, today the main groups live in Canada, where they are enrolled in the...
  
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• Hans Egede
  Hans Egede
  Hans Poulsen Egede was a Norwegian-Danish Lutheran missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the Inuit and is credited with revitalizing Dano-Norwegian interest in the island after contact...
  
   - "Apostle of Greenland."
• Onesimos Nesib
  Onesimos Nesib
  Onesimos Nesib , was a native Oromo who converted to Lutheran Christianity and translated the Christian Bible into the Oromo language...
  
   - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo
  Oromo language
  Oromo, also known as Afaan Oromo, Oromiffa, Afan Boran, Afan Orma, and sometimes in other languages by variant spellings of these names , is an Afro-Asiatic language, and the most widely spoken of the Cushitic family. Forms of Oromo are spoken as a first language by more than 25 million Oromo and...
  
   and did missionary work in Africa.
• Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India.

Politicians

• Kjell Magne Bondevik
  Kjell Magne Bondevik
  Kjell Magne Bondevik is a Norwegian Lutheran minister and politician . He served as Prime Minister of Norway from 1997 to 2000, and from 2001 to 2005, making him Norway's longest serving non-Labour Party Prime Minister since World War II...
  
   - Former Prime Minister of Norway.
• Francis Hoffmann - Once Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and also wrote under a pen-name.
• Antti Johannes Rantamaa
  Antti Johannes Rantamaa
  Antti Johannes Rantamaa was a Finnish member of the Finnish Parliament, figure of the Winter War, author and one of the heads of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland....
  
   - Finnish chaplain who served in the Parliament of Finland
  Parliament of Finland
  The Eduskunta , is the parliament of Finland. The unicameral parliament has 200 members and meets in the Parliament House in Helsinki. The latest election to the parliament took place on April 17, 2011.- Constitution :...
  
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Theologians

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  Dietrich Bonhoeffer was a German Lutheran pastor, theologian and martyr. He was a participant in the German resistance movement against Nazism and a founding member of the Confessing Church. He was involved in plans by members of the Abwehr to assassinate Adolf Hitler...
  
   - A founding member of the Confessing Church
  Confessing Church
  The Confessing Church was a Protestant schismatic church in Nazi Germany that arose in opposition to government-sponsored efforts to nazify the German Protestant church.-Demographics:...
  
   who was executed by Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany
  Nazi Germany , also known as the Third Reich , but officially called German Reich from 1933 to 1943 and Greater German Reich from 26 June 1943 onward, is the name commonly used to refer to the state of Germany from 1933 to 1945, when it was a totalitarian dictatorship ruled by...
  
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• Otto von Gerlach
  Otto von Gerlach
  Karl Friedrich Otto von Gerlach was a German theologian and pastor from Berlin.He was the youngest of five children of Carl Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach , first Lord Mayor of Berlin, and Agnes von Raumer , and brother of Ernst Ludwig von Gerlach and Ludwig Friedrich Leopold von Gerlach .Otto von...
  
   - Nineteenth-century German.
• Oswald Hoffmann
  Oswald Hoffmann
  Dr. Oswald C. J. Hoffmann was an American clergyman and broadcaster who was best known as a speaker for The Lutheran Hour, a long-running radio program affiliated with the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod....
  
   - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour
  The Lutheran Hour
  The Lutheran Hour is a U.S. religious radio program that proclaims the message of Jesus Christ on nearly 800 stations throughout North American, as well as by weekly audiences on the American Forces Network and XM Satellite Radio FamilyTalk 170...
  
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• Ernst Käsemann
  Ernst Käsemann
  Ernst Käsemann, , was a Lutheran theologian and professor of New Testament in Mainz , Göttingen and Tübingen .-Study and work:...
  
   - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.
• Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
  Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe
  Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe was a pastor of the Lutheran Church, Neo-Lutheran writer, and is often regarded as being a founder of the deaconess movement in Lutheranism and a founding sponsor of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod . He was a pastor in nineteenth-century Germany...
  
   - Celebrated by ELCA and LC-MS.
• Martin Niemöller
  Martin Niemöller
  Friedrich Gustav Emil Martin Niemöller was a German anti-Nazi theologian and Lutheran pastor. He is best known as the author of the poem "First they came…"....
  
   - Former U-boat
  U-boat
  U-boat is the anglicized version of the German word U-Boot , itself an abbreviation of Unterseeboot , and refers to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in World War I and World War II...
  
   who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.
• Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American
  Norwegian American
  Norwegian Americans are Americans of Norwegian descent. Norwegian immigrants went to the United States primarily in the later half of the 19th century and the first few decades of the 20th century. There are more than 4.5 million Norwegian Americans according to the most recent U.S. census, and...
  
   minister, theologian and church leader
• Gunnar Rosendal
  Gunnar Rosendal
  Gunnar Rosendal was a Swedish Lutheran priest, Doctor of Theology, and parish priest of Osby...
  
   - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism
  High Church Lutheranism
  "High Church Lutheranism" is the name given in Europe for the 20th century Lutheran movement that emphasizes worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found within both Roman Catholicism and the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism...
  
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Writers

• Caspar Aquila
  Caspar Aquila
  Caspar Aquila , also Kaspar Aquila, Caspari Aquilae, Gaspar Aquila, birth name Johann Kaspar Adler, was a German reformer, who was born at Augsburg. Educated at Augsburg and at Ulm , in Italy , at Bern , studied theology in Leipzig and Wittenberg...
  
   - A writer of tracts.
• Johann Ernst Glück
  Johann Ernst Glück
  Johann Ernst Glück was a German translator and Lutheran theologian active in Livonia, which is now in Latvia.Glück was born in Wettin as the son of a pastor...
  
   - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
• Paul Henkel
  Paul Henkel
  Paul Henkel was a native of North Carolina who became an itinerant evangelist for the Lutheran church in the eastern United States....
  
   - Tract writer.
• Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
  Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten
  Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten , also known as Ludwig Theobul or Ludwig Theoboul, was a German poet and Lutheran preacher.Kosegarten was born in Grevesmühlen, then part of Swedish Pomerania...
  
   - German poet.
• Eduard Mörike
  Eduard Mörike
  Eduard Friedrich Mörike was a German Romantic poet.-Biography:Mörike was born in Ludwigsburg. His father was Karl Friedrich Mörike , a district medical councilor; his mother was Charlotte Bayer...
  
   - German Romantic poet.
• Olaf M. Norlie
  Olaf M. Norlie
  Olaf Morgan Norlie , also referred to as O. M. Norlie, was a Lutheran minister, educator and scholar. He was a prolific author who is most remembered as the translator of the Simplified New Testament.-Background:...
  
   - Lutheran minister, educator scholar and author
• Kristian Ostergaard
  Kristian Ostergaard
  Kristian Ostergaard was Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author.-Background:Kristian Ostergaard was born in Østergård in the Hjerm parish of Viborg County, now Struer Municipality, Region Midtjylland, Denmark.-Career:Ostergaard immigrated to the United States where he worked at...
  
   - Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author
• Johann Adolf Schlegel
  Johann Adolf Schlegel
  Johann Adolf Schlegel was a German poet and clergyman.He was born in Meißen, Saxony, and was the brother of Johann Elias Schlegel. After finishing his studies in Leipzig, he became a deacon and teacher at Pforta in 1751. In 1754, he became a pastor and professor in Zerbst, before moving to become...
  
   - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets.

See also

• :Category:Evangelical Lutheran Church in America bishops
• :Category:Presidents of the Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod
• :Category:Praeces of the Church of Norway