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James Kenneth Echols resigns as president of ELCA's Chicago seminary

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Date Thu, 19 May 2011 11:29:02 -0500

Title: James Kenneth Echols resigns as president of ELCA's Chicago seminary
ELCA NEWS SERVICE

>May 19, 2011  

James Kenneth Echols resigns as president of ELCA's Chicago seminary
11-072-JB

CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Dr. James Kenneth Echols has resigned as
president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, according to a
May 18 news release from the seminary. Echols, 59, who served as
president for 14 years, was the first African American president of a
North American Lutheran seminary.

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