A. Gordon Wetmore | |
Birth Name: | Arnold Gordon Wetmore |
Birth Date: | June 24, 1931 |
Office: | President of Northwest Nazarene College |
Termstart: | 1983 |
Termend: | 1992 |
Death Place: | Olathe, Kansas, U.S. |
Death Date: | June 9, 2016 (aged 84) |
Alma Mater: | Eastern Nazarene College Fuller Theological Seminary (D.Min.) |
Birth Place: | New Brunswick, Canada |
Arnold Gordon Wetmore was an American theologian who was president emeritus of the Nazarene Theological Seminary and a former president of the Northwest Nazarene College.
Wetmore was born on June 24, 1931, in New Brunswick, Canada.[1] Wetmore received his undergraduate degree at the Eastern Nazarene College in Massachusetts. He then earned a doctor of ministry degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. He has also received two honorary degrees.[2]
Wetmore pastored churches in Quincy, Massachusetts, Kansas City, Missouri, Columbus, Ohio, and Monroe, Wisconsin, in addition to serving as dean of students at his alma mater, Eastern Nazarene College.[3] In 1983, Wetmore was elected president of the Northwest Nazarene College and served there until 1992,[2] when he was elected president of the Nazarene Theological Seminary.[4] He retired in 2000 and lived with his wife in Olathe, Kansas,[3] until his death on June 9, 2016.[5]