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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.
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     The home page of the ELCA Southeast Michigan Synod is at
http://www.semisynod.org/ on the Web.

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