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Title: Herman Yoos Elected Bishop of ELCA South Carolina Synod
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>May 20, 2008

Herman Yoos Elected Bishop of ELCA South Carolina Synod
08-067-FI

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Herman R. Yoos III, Good
Shepherd Lutheran Church, Columbia, S.C., was elected May
18 to a six-year term as bishop of the Evangelical
Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) South Carolina Synod. On Aug. 1 he succeeds the Rev. David A. Donges, who
announced earlier his plans to retire.

Yoos was elected on the fifth ballot for bishop during
the synod assembly May 16-18 at the Columbia Metropolitan
Convention Center, Columbia, S.C.  He received 351 votes
to 243 for the Rev. Melvin E. Amundson, assistant to the
bishop, ELCA South Carolina Synod.

The Rev. Tony A. Metze, St. Paul Lutheran Church,
Columbia, was also a candidate on the fourth ballot.  There
were 84 names on the nominating ballot.

Yoos, 56, will be installed as bishop in a service Oct.
11 at Newberry College, Newberry, S.C.  Newberry is one of
28 ELCA colleges and universities.

Born in Concord, N.C., Yoos graduated from the University
of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and the Lutheran Theological
Southern Seminary (Southern), Columbia.  He studied at the
Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago (LSTC) and earned a
doctorate in ministry from Columbia Theological Seminary,
Decatur, Ga.  Southern and LSTC are two of the ELCA's eight
seminaries.

Ordained in 1979 Yoos served as pastor of St. Mark
Lutheran Church, Charlotte, N.C., and Lutheran Church of
the Redeemer, Charleston, S.C., before Good Shepherd Lutheran
Church called him to Columbia in 1996.

Yoos and his wife Cindy are parents of three adult
children.

The ELCA South Carolina Synod consists of approximately
58,000 Lutherans in 163 congregations across South Carolina.
The synod office is in Columbia.
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The home page for the ELCA South Carolina Synod is at
http://www.sclutheran.org/ on the Web.

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John Brooks, Director (773) 380-2958 or news@elca.org
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