Fredrik A. Schiotz

Fredrik A. Schiotz

Rev. Dr. Fredrik Axel Schiotz, (1901-1989) was an American Lutheran pastor and later president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church and Presiding Bishop of The American Lutheran Church.

Schiotz was born in Chicago, Illinois and graduated from St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota, and earned a master's degree at Luther Theological Seminary in Saint Paul, Minnesota

In 1954 he was elected president of the historically Norwegian-American Evangelical Lutheran Church. In 1960, the ELC along with the United Evangelical Lutheran Church and American Lutheran Church merged to form The American Lutheran Church. Schiotz was elected president of the new body and served as the church's president until the end of 1970. He was the president of the Lutheran World Federation from 1963 to 1970 and the central committee of World Council of Churches from 1961 to 1971.


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