German theologian
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm (born 30 March 1960 in Memmingen) is a German Lutheran bishop.
Life.
His father was a Lutheran priest in Memmingen. Bedford-Strohm studied Lutheran theology at Erlangen, Heidelberg and Berkeley. In 1997, he became a pastor. From 2004 until 2011, he worked at the University of Bamberg. In 2011, he became bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria.
From 2014 to 2021 he was the chairman of the council of Evangelical Church in Germany, succeeding Nikolaus Schneider. 
In 1985, he married Deborah Bedford and they had three sons.
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