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ELCA NEWS SERVICE

August 2, 2000

THE REV. EDWARD K. PERRY, FORMER ELCA SYNOD BISHOP, DIES
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     CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Edward K. Perry, 73, president/bishop
of the Upper New York Synod of the former Lutheran Church in America
(LCA) from 1967 to 1987 and bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in
America's (ELCA) Upstate New York Synod from 1988 until his retirement
in 1992, died July 27.
     A memorial service will be held at Parkside Lutheran Church in
Buffalo, N.Y. on Sept. 9 at 2 p.m.
     Perry was born Dec. 2, 1926, in the Bronx, N.Y., and was a
graduate of Tenafly High School in Tenafly, N.J.  He completed a
bachelor's degree in 1946 at Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pa., and
earned a master of divinity degree in 1949 from Lutheran Theological
Seminary at Gettysburg.  Perry's doctoral work was in urban sociology
and the sociology of religion at the University of Buffalo, Buffalo,
N.Y., and Columbia University, New York City.
      Ordained in 1949, Perry served at Parkside Lutheran Church;
Covenant Lutheran Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.; Trinity Lutheran Church,
Herkimer, N.Y.; and St. John Lutheran Church, Mamaroneck, N.Y.
     Perry was on the faculties of Hartwick and Gettysburg Colleges and
was chair of the Board of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at
Philadelphia.
     Perry was active in social ministry.  He was on the Board of
Social Ministry of the New York Synod of the LCA for 13 years and was
chair for three years.  He had also been a member of the Boards of the
Lutheran Church Home, Buffalo N.Y. and the G.A. Children's home,
Jamestown, N.Y.  Perry was chair of the Lutheran Charities Appeal in
Metropolitan New York and president of the Board of Lutheran Social
Services of Upstate New York as well.
     Perry was also a member of the management committee of the LCA's
Office of Research and Planning, and he was president of the New York
State Council of Churches.  In addition, he chaired the LCA's Committee
on the Ordained Ministry of the Conference of Bishops and the LCA
Bishops' Committee on Occasional Service Texts including the Ordinal, as
well as the third round of the U.S. Lutheran Reformed theological
dialogue.
     He is survived by his wife Carol, a son, Thomas, and two
daughters, Susan and Melissa.

     [*Michael N. Hoffman is a senior at the University of Kansas,
Lawrence, Kan.  This summer he is an intern with ELCA News and
Information.]

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