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News from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

June 5, 1996

SOUTHERN OHIO

The Rev. Callon W. Holloway Jr., 43, was elected to a
six-year term as bishop of the Southern Ohio Synod of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) on June
1.  He is currently an assistant to Bishop Kenneth H.
Sauer, whom he will succeed when Sauer retires on Sept.
1.  Holloway received 304 votes on the fifth ballot cast
during the synod's annual assembly at Wittenberg
University, Springfield, Ohio.  The Rev. Walter F. Taylor
Jr., professor of New Testament, Trinity Lutheran
Seminary, Columbus, Ohio, received 281 votes on the fifth
ballot.  The Rev. Larry A. Hoffsis, Epiphany Lutheran
Church, Dayton, Ohio, was in consideration on the
assembly's fourth ballot.  Holloway is on the steering
committee of the ELCA's Commission for Multicultural
Ministries.  He will be the church's only African-American
bishop.  Holloway is a graduate of Gettysburg College,
Gettysburg, Pa., and the Lutheran School of Theology at
Chicago.  He was pastor of Westwood Lutheran Church,
Dayton, Ohio, before joining the synod staff.  Sauer was
bishop of the synod since the ELCA was formed in 1988.
He was first elected in 1973 as president of the Ohio
Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America.  Sauer
chaired the ELCA Conference of Bishops and was
president of the Ohio Council of Churches.

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