Title: Trexler Resigns as Lutheran Bishop of Florida-Bahamas Synod
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

November 1, 2000

TREXLER RESIGNS AS LUTHERAN BISHOP OF FLORIDA-BAHAMAS SYNOD
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. William B. Trexler, 57, has announced
his resignation as bishop of the Florida-Bahamas Synod, one of 65 synods
of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), effective Jan. 1,
2001.  He has accepted a call to serve as pastor of First Lutheran
Church, Norfolk, Va.
     The Florida-Bahamas Synod Assembly, meeting May 3-5 at Lake Yale,
Leesburg, Fla., will elect the synod's next bishop.  In a letter to the
synod's 220 congregations, Dr. Cecilia M. Johnson, synod vice president,
said the Rev. H. George Anderson, ELCA presiding bishop, will appoint an
interim bishop to serve from the first of the year until the synod's
next bishop takes office.
     The 1995 Florida-Bahamas Synod Assembly elected Trexler to a
six-year term that began Aug. 1, 1995.  He succeeded the Rev. Lavern G.
Franzen, who served as the synod's bishop since the ELCA was formed in
1988.
     The Florida-Bahamas Synod includes 93,000 Lutherans, 500 of whom
are pastors, associates in ministry, deaconesses and diaconal ministers
of the ELCA.  Synod offices are in Tampa, Fla.
     Born in Rocky Mount, N.C., Trexler is a graduate of Duke
University, Durham, N.C., and Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary,
Columbia, S.C.  He earned a doctorate from Southern Seminary in 1991.
     Ordained in 1970, Trexler has served as pastor of St. Peter
Lutheran Church, Miami; Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Greenville, S.C.; and
St. Mark Lutheran Church, Jacksonville, Fla.  From 1975 to 1976, he
served as Atlanta-based staff of the former Lutheran Church in America's
Division for Parish Services.
     Trexler and his wife, Karla, are the parents of two sons and a
daughter.

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