The newly-elected LWF President, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Presiding Bishop Mark S. Hanson, expressed profound gratitude to his predecessor, Bishop em. Dr Christian Krause for his lifelong leadership within the LWF.

“You have built bridges, spoken with clarity your convictions as a Lutheran theologian, listened intently, known when to challenge us, when to encourage us, when to let us struggle and when to bring us together again, and I, as your successor, am profoundly grateful for this legacy that you give to me, to the Federation and the whole world,” Hanson told Krause, former bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick, Germany.

The Rev. Mark S. Hanson, Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), was elected President of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) on Saturday, 26 July 2003. He was elected on the first round of a secret-ballot vote, garnering a majority of 267 votes to 111 votes for the second and only other candidate, the Rev. Susan C. Johnson, Vice-President of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada (ELCIC). More...   

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> Click here for an expression of thanks by the LWF General Secretary, Rev. Dr Ishmael Noko, to the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.