Title: Miller Re-Elected Bishop of ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod
ELCA NEWS SERVICE
May 21, 2001
MILLER RE-ELECTED BISHOP OF ELCA NORTHEASTERN OHIO SYNOD
01-128-PL*/JB
CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Marcus J. Miller was re-elected May 18
to a six-year term as bishop of the Northeastern Ohio Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). Miller, 54, was re-
elected at the synod assembly at the John S. Knight Center, Akron, Ohio.
Assembly voting members chose Miller on the first ballot for
bishop, giving him 328 of 411 votes. Others who received votes on the
first ballot were the Rev. Bruce G. Trethaway, Divinity Lutheran Church,
Parma Heights, Ohio, 12 votes; the Rev. Paul L. Myers, Jr., Holy Trinity
Lutheran Church, Massillon, Ohio, 10 votes; and the Rev. R. Langley
Collins, Faith Lutheran Church, Massillon, Ohio, 10 votes. There were 29
nominees who received votes on the first ballot.
Miller's new term begins Sept. 1.
Miller, who was born in Wyandotte, Mich., earned a bachelor's
degree in 1967 at Concordia Senior College, Fort Wayne, Ind. He earned
a master of divinity degree in 1971 at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis,
and a doctoral degree in 1981 at New York Theological Seminary, New
York, N.Y.
Miller served for several years as pastor at Lutheran Church of
the Good Shepherd, Brooklyn, Ohio, before he was elected bishop in 1995.
He and his wife Katherine are parents of two grown children.
The ELCA Northeastern Ohio Synod has 95,099 baptized members in
213 congregations. Its offices are in Akron.
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*The Rev. Paul L. Lintern, Mansfield, Ohio, is the Northeastern
Ohio Synod supplement editor for The Lutheran, the magazine of the ELCA.
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