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News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

June 5, 1996

RE-ELECTED

The Rev. Peter Rogness, 50, was re-elected to a six-year
term as bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America on June 1.  He
received 270 of 318 votes cast May 31 on the first ballot
for bishop to win re-election during the synod's annual
assembly at Carthage College, Kenosha, Wis.  There
were 26 other names on that ballot, including the Rev.
Kenneth W. Wheeler, assistant to Bishop Rogness, who
received ten votes and the Rev. Joseph W. Ellwanger,
Cross Lutheran Church, Milwaukee, who received five
votes.  Rogness was first elected president of the Southern
Wisconsin District of the former American Lutheran
Church in 1985.  He was elected synod bishop when the
ELCA was formed in 1988 and was re-elected in 1992.
He will not be eligible for re-election when his new term
ends in 2002.  Rogness has served as pastor of two
Milwaukee congregations -- Hephatha Lutheran Church
and Wellington Park Lutheran Church.

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