ELCA NEWS SERVICE May 3, 2004 Rimbo Re-Elected Bishop of ELCA Southeast Michigan Synod 04-089-MR CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Robert A. Rimbo, 53, was elected April 29 to a second six-year term as bishop of the Southeast Michigan Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) during the synod's assembly at Greater Grace Temple City of David, Detroit. Rimbo received 193 votes on the first ballot for re- election. The Rev. Jack E. Eggleston, assistant to the bishop for leadership, ELCA Southeast Michigan Synod, Detroit, received the second highest number of votes with seven on that ballot, which included 35 names. In 1998 the synod elected Rimbo to succeed the Rev. J. Philip Wahl as bishop. Rimbo served as Wahl's assistant from 1991 to 1996. A 1976 graduate of Christ Seminary-Seminex, St. Louis, Rimbo served two years as executive assistant to the project director of the Inter-Lutheran Commission on Worship, New York, which produced the Lutheran Book of Worship. He was pastor of St. Paul Lutheran Church, Valley Stream, N.Y., from 1978 to 1982, and St. James Lutheran Church, Grosse Pointe Farms, Mich., from 1982 to 1991. The ELCA Southeast Michigan Synod has about 67,400 Lutherans in 141 congregations. -- -- -- The home page of the ELCA Southeast Michigan Synod is at http://www.semisynod.org/ on the Web. For information contact: John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or [log in to unmask] http://www.elca.org/news