List of Lutheran clergy explained

This is a listing of the major offices within the Lutheran churches, as well as significant individual Lutheran clergy.

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
• 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 (1876-1966) - President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church
• Erland Carlsson (1822-1893) - One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod^[1]
• Gottlieb Bender Christiansen (1851-1929) - Founding President of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church^[2]
• Claus Lauritz Clausen (1820-1892) - President of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America^[3]
• Elling Eielsen (1804-1883) - Founder of The Eielsen Synod (Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)
• Lars Paul Esbjörn (1808-1870) - One of the founders of the Augustana Synod and Augustana College
• Johann Fischer (1636-1705) - German theologian and Superintendent of Livonia
• Tuve Hasselquist (1816-1891) - Founding President of the Augustana Synod
  • Ulrik Vilhelm Koren (1826-1910) - President of the Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran Church in America Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia.
• Margot Käßmann (b. 1958) - Bishop for the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover.
• Jaan Kiivit, Jr (1940-2005) Former archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Johan Kõpp (1874-1970)- Estonian Lutheran bishop who fled to Sweden after the Soviet takeover.
• Frederick Muhlenberg (1750 - 1801) - Clergy, first Speaker of US House
• Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg (1711 - 1786) - Founder of the Lutheran church in America.
• Peter Muhlenberg (1746 - 1807) - Clergy, Revolutionary War soldier, US House, US Senate
• Ishmael Noko (b. 1943)- General secretary of the Lutheran World Federation.
  • Eric Norelius (1833-1916)- One of the founders and President of the Augustana Synod Kuno Pajula (1924-2012) - Former archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
• Andres Põder (b. 1949) - The current archbishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Estonia.
  • Hans Gerhard Stub (1849-1931) - First bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church (United States) Jonas Swensson (1828-1873) - Former president of the Augustana Evangelical Lutheran Church.

List of clergy

Academics

• Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer (b. 1954) - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan^[4]
• Kristian Anker (1848-1928) - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College^[5]
• Anton Marius Andersen (1847-1941) - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College^[6]
• Georg M. Grossmann (1823-1897) - Founder of Wartburg College^[7]
• Theodore Marcus Hansen (1886-1973) - President of Dana College and Trinity Seminary
• John N. Kildahl (1857-1920) - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College
• O. P. Kretzmann (1901-1975) - President of Valparaiso University, Lutheran pastor, author, and professor
• Peter Laurentius Larsen - Founding president of Luther College.
• Knud Ejler Løgstrup - Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager- Holevad from 1936–1943. Professor at University of Aarhus from 1943-1975
• Thorbjorn N. Mohn - Founding president of St. Olaf College
• Bernt Julius Muus - Founder of St. Olaf College
• Robert Preus - Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president
• Stephan Ludwig Roth - Transylvanian educationist.^[8]
• Jacob Tanner (1865-1964) - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
• John Tietjen (1928-2004) - Noted for the Seminex controversy.^[9]
• Peter Sørensen Vig (1854-1929) - President of Trinity Seminary and the president of Dana College

Activists

• K. G. William Dahl (1883-1917) - Lutheran minister, author and social advocate. Founder of Bethphage Mission.
• Robert Graetz (1928-2020) - Possibly the only white member of the Montgomery Improvement Association.^[10]
• Sumowood Harris - Liberian peace activist.
• Bernt B. Haugan (1862-1931) - American minister, politician, and temperance leader.
• Judith Hird (b. 1946) - first woman to become a Lutheran pastor.
• William A. Passavant - Lutheran minister noted for bringing the Lutheran Deaconess movement to the United States.
• Roland Weisselberg (1933-2006) - Critic of the former East Germany who later committed Self-immolation as a protest against the spread of Islam.^[11]

Explorers and colonizers

• Gotthard Fritzsche - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.^[12]
• Rasmus Jensen - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
• August Kavel - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.^[13]
• Martin Stephan - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated.^[14]
• Reorus Torkillus - First Lutheran clergyman to settle in New Sweden

Missionaries

• Johan Campanius - Assigned to New Sweden, Missionary to the Lenape.
• Hans Egede - "Apostle of Greenland."^[15]
• Onesimos Nesib - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo and did missionary work in Africa.^[16]
• Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India.^[17]
• Martti Rautanen (1845-1926) - First Christian missionary in Ovamboland in Namibia.
• Alexander Durham Hail (1844-1923) - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.^[18]
• John Baxter Hail (1846-1928) - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.^[19]

Politicians

• Joh Bjelke-Petersen - Former Premier of Queensland.
• Kjell Magne Bondevik (b. 1947) - Former Prime Minister of Norway.
• Francis Hoffmann (1822-1903) - Once Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and also wrote under a pen-name.^[20]
• John Herman Koch (1864-1929) - Former Wisconsin State Assemblyman.
• Antti Johannes Rantamaa (1904-1987) - Finnish chaplain who served in the Parliament of Finland.

Theologians

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A founding member of the Confessing Church who was executed by Nazi Germany.^[21]
• Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.^[22]
• N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns
• Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.^[23]
• Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.^[24]
• Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS.^[25]
• Martin Luther - German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, with whose teachings Lutheranism is associated.
• Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat captain who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.^[26]
• Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American minister, theologian and church leader^[27]
• Gunnar Rosendal (1897-1988) - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.^[28]

Writers

• Caspar Aquila - Tract writer.
• Johann Ernst Glück (1652-1705) - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
• Paul Henkel (1854-1825) - Tract writer.^[29]
• Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1858-1818) - German poet.^[30]
• Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) - German Romantic poet.
• Olaf M. Norlie (1876-1962) - Lutheran minister, educator scholar and author^[31]
• Kristian Ostergaard (1855-1931) - Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author^[32]
• Nancy Raabe (1954-) - Pastor, author, composer.^[33] President, Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.^[34]
• Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793) - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets.^[35]

See also

• List of Lutheran dioceses and archdioceses

Citations

1. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=C&word=CARLSSON.ERLAND Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
2. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=C&word=CHRISTIANSEN.GOTTLIEBBENDER Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
3. http://www.nb.no/emigrasjon/vis_data_bilde.php?lang=eng&dok_id=32772&nss=no-nb_emidata_E2141 The Promise of America
4. http://www.cuaa.edu/aboutCUAA/?d_id=303 Concordia University profile
5. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=A&word=ANKER.KRISTIAN Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
6. http://www.nathankramer.com/dana/exhibit/presidents/index.htm Dana College Review, Volume 40, Number 1. Fall 1983
7. http://www.wartburg.edu/about/wartburghistory/index.html Wartburg College
8. http://www.primariamedias.ro/index.php?id=496 Primăria Municipiului Mediaş » Acasă
9. http://www.elca.org/Scriptlib/CO/ELCA_News/encArticleList.asp?a=2753 ELCA site
10. http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/2005/01_17.html Wittenberg.edu
11. News: Priest burns himself to death over Islam. Times Online. 5 August 2011. https://web.archive.org/web/20110805053055/http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article623634.ece . 3 November 2006. Crossland . David.
12. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=F&word=FRITZSCHE.GOTTHARDDANIEL Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
13. http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/germanaustralia/e/kavelmem.htm German Australia
14. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=S&word=STEPHAN.MARTIN.SR Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
15. Egede, Hans . 9 . 12.
16. http://www.dacb.org/stories/ethiopia/onesimus_nesib.html Dictionary of African Christian Biography
17. http://www.cssaame.com/issues/23/31.pdf CSAAME article
18. Twenty-Five Years in Japan,1902
19. Twenty-Five Years in Japan,1902
20. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=28921&CISOSHOW=28767&REC=7 Wisconsin Historical Society
21. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4906502.stm BBC
22. http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc04/Page_465.html Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge
23. https://archive.today/20070912121732/http://www.lcms.org/pages/rpage.asp?NavID=8735 LCMS obituary
24. http://www.econi.org/LionLamb/022/church3.html article
25. http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/files/pb/1165 Concordia
26. https://web.archive.org/web/20090114112329/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759113,00.html Time Magazine
27. http://www.snl.no/Jacob_Aall_Ottesen Jacob Aall Ottesen (Store norske leksikon)
28. http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/crhale/rosendal.html The Catholic Movement in the Swedish Church
29. http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=H&word=HENKELS. Christian Cyclopedia. The Lutheran Church--Missouri Synod
30. https://books.google.com/books?id=jYGBeuB1mOEC&dq=%22ludwig+gotthard+kosegarten%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA46 The Baltic and the North Seas By David Kirby
31. http://www.stolaf.edu/collections/archives/scripts/25/united.html United Church Seminary St. Olaf College
32. http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/dissertations/AAI9004698/ "Kristian Ostergaard's "A Merchant's House" (John Mark Nielsen, University of Nebraska - Lincoln)
33. Web site: Nancy M Raabe, Pastor, Musician . 2022-10-11 . nancyraabe.com.
34. Web site: Board Bios . 2022-10-12 . Association of Lutheran Church Musicians . en-US.
35. https://books.google.com/books?id=I5PTbdNpDGwC&dq=%22johann+adolf+schlegel%22&pg=RA2-PA389 Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry in the United States