List of Lutheran clergy

List of Lutheran clergy is a listing of Lutheran clergy to allow for additional information about Lutheran clergy that may not handle.

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

Additional Lutheran leaders

*Christoph Kähler - Presiding bishop of the Protestant Lutheran Church in Thuringia.
*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.
*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.

List of clergy

Academics

*Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan. [ [http://www.cuaa.edu/aboutCUAA/?d_id=303 Concordia University profile] ]
*Georg M. Grossman - Founder of Wartburg College. [ [http://www.wartburg.edu/about/wartburghistory/index.html Wartburg College] ]
*Stephan Ludwig Roth - Transylvanian educationist. [ [http://www.primariamedias.ro/index.php?id=496 Primăria Municipiului Mediaş » Acasă ] ]
*John Tietjen - Noted for the Seminex controversy. [ [http://www.elca.org/Scriptlib/CO/ELCA_News/encArticleList.asp?a=2753 ELCA site] ]

Activists

*Robert Graetz - Possibly the only white member of the Montgomery Improvement Association. [ [http://www4.wittenberg.edu/news/2005/01_17.html Wittenberg.edu] ]
*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. [ [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article623634.ece Times Online] ]

Explorers and colonizers

*Gotthard Fritzsche - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans. [ [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=F&word=FRITZSCHE.GOTTHARDDANIEL Christian Cyclopedia] ]
*Rasmus Jensen - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
*August Kavel - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans. [ [http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/dnutting/germanaustralia/e/kavelmem.htm German Australia] ]
*Martin Stephan - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated. [ [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=S&word=STEPHAN.MARTIN.SR Christian Cyclopedia] ]

Missionaries

*John Campanius - Missionary to the Lenape.
*Hans Egede - "Apostle of Greenland." [ [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Hans_Egede 1911 Encyclopedia] ]
*Onesimos Nesib - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo and did missionary work in Africa. [ [http://www.dacb.org/stories/ethiopia/onesimus_nesib.html Dictionary of African Christian Biography] ]
*Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India. [ [http://www.cssaame.com/issues/23/31.pdf CSAAME article] ]

Politicians

*Kjell Magne Bondevik - Former Prime Minister of Norway.
*Francis Hoffmann - Once Lieutenant Governor of Illinois and also wrote under a pen-name. [ [http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/wmh&CISOPTR=28921&CISOSHOW=28767&REC=7 Wisconsin Historical Society] ]
*Antti Johannes Rantamaa - 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. [ [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/4906502.stm BBC] ]
*Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German. [ [http://www.ccel.org/ccel/schaff/encyc04/Page_465.html Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge] ]
*Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour. [ [http://www.lcms.org/pages/rpage.asp?NavID=8735 LC-MS obituary] ]
*Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism. [ [http://www.econi.org/LionLamb/022/church3.html article] ]
*Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LC-MS. [ [http://www.ctsfw.edu/library/files/pb/1165 Concordia] ]
*Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,759113,00.html Time Magazine] ]
*Gunnar Rosendal - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism. [ [http://anglicanhistory.org/usa/crhale/rosendal.html The Catholic Movement in the Swedish Church] ]

Writers

*Caspar Aquila - A writer of tracts.
*Johann Ernst Glück - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
*Paul Henkel - Tract writer. [ [http://www.lcms.org/ca/www/cyclopedia/02/display.asp?t1=H&word=HENKELS.THE LCMS's Christian Cyclopedia] ]
*Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten - German poet. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=jYGBeuB1mOEC&pg=PA46&lpg=PA46&dq=%22ludwig+gotthard+kosegarten%22+-wikipedia&source=web&ots=88RRB5u-zt&sig=tb1kzq3nP8rN5x63MF4LwMDrgg4#PPA46,M1 The Baltic and the North Seas By David Kirby] ]
*Eduard Mörike - German Romantic poet.
*Johann Adolf Schlegel - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets. [ [http://books.google.com/books?id=I5PTbdNpDGwC&pg=RA2-PA389&lpg=RA2-PA389&dq=%22johann+adolf+schlegel%22&source=web&ots=40HXdcCos6&sig=xuMwcSghjJwlQ92mFebOhQjYRI0#PRA2-PA388-IA2,M1 Schlegel's American Families of German Ancestry in the United States] ]

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