title: List of Lutheran clergy
text: # List of Lutheran clergy
  
  This is a listing of the major offices within the Lutheran churches, as well as significant individual Lutheran clergy.
  
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  F. C. D. Wyneken
  
  Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder
  
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  Hans Egede / Paul Egede
  
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  ## 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
  * Gottlieb Bender Christiansen (1851-1929) - Founding President of the United Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church
  * Claus Lauritz Clausen (1820-1892) - President of the Conference of the Norwegian-Danish Evangelical Lutheran Church of America
  * 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. de:Christoph Kähler
  * 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.et:Johan Kõpp
  * 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
  * Kristian Anker (1848-1928) - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College
  * Anton Marius Andersen (1847-1941) - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College
  * Georg M. Grossmann (1823-1897) - Founder of Wartburg College
  * 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.
  * Jacob Tanner (1865-1964) - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
  * John Tietjen (1928-2004) - Noted for the Seminex controversy.
  * 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.
  * 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.
  
  ### Explorers and colonizers
  
  * Gotthard Fritzsche - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
  * Rasmus Jensen - One of the earliest Lutheran chaplains to go the "New World."
  * August Kavel - A founding figure for Australia's Lutherans.
  * Martin Stephan - Settled with a colony of Saxons, later excommunicated.
  * 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."
  * Onesimos Nesib - Convert from Ethiopia who translated the Bible into Oromo and did missionary work in Africa.
  * Bartholomäus Ziegenbalg - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in India.
  * 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.
  * John Baxter Hail (1846-1928) - Possibly the first Protestant missionary in Wakayama Prefecture, Japan.
  
  ### 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.
  * 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.
  * Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.
  * N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns
  * Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.
  * Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.
  * Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS.
  * 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.
  * Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American minister, theologian and church leader
  * Gunnar Rosendal (1897-1988) - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.
  
  ### Writers
  
  * Caspar Aquila - Tract writer.
  * Johann Ernst Glück (1652-1705) - Translated the Bible into Latvian.
  * Paul Henkel (1854-1825) - Tract writer.
  * Ludwig Gotthard Kosegarten (1858-1818) - German poet.
  * Eduard Mörike (1804-1875) - German Romantic poet.
  * Olaf M. Norlie (1876-1962) - Lutheran minister, educator scholar and author
  * Kristian Ostergaard (1855-1931) - Danish-American Lutheran pastor, educator and author
  * Nancy Raabe (1954-) - Pastor, author, composer. President, Association of Lutheran Church Musicians.
  * Johann Adolf Schlegel (1721-1793) - Poet who wrote "Spiritual Songs" and fathered two poets.
  