Mark S Hanson was born on December 2,1946 and is an American bishop who served as the third Presiding Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
13 Facts About Mark Hanson
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Mark S Hanson was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota on December 2,1946.
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Mark Hanson was raised in a Lutheran family in Minnesota.
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Mark Hanson's father was a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
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Mark Hanson graduated from Minnehaha Academy in 1964, and earned a bachelor's degree in sociology from Augsburg University in 1968.
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Mark Hanson was a Rockefeller Fellow at Union Theological Seminary from 1968 to 1969, where he received a Master of Divinity degree in 1972, and attended Luther Seminary, St Paul, Minnesota, from 1973 to 1974.
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Mark Hanson was a Merrill Fellow at Harvard University Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1979.
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Mark Hanson was elected Bishop of the Saint Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America in 1995, and had been reelected to a second term prior to his election as Presiding Bishop of the ELCA in 2001.
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In 2003, Mark Hanson was elected President of the Lutheran World Federation, a role which he served concurrently with his role as ELCA Presiding Bishop.
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Mark Hanson serves on the executive council on the executive board of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the USA Hanson is author of Faithful Yet Changing: The Church in Challenging Times.
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In 2007 Mark Hanson was reelected on the second ballot, making him the longest-serving Presiding Bishop in the ELCA's history.
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Mark Hanson is married to Ione Hanson from Hettinger, North Dakota.
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Mark Hanson is the author of Faithful Yet Changing; the Church in Challenging Times, and Faithful and Courageous; Christians in Unsettling Times, both from Augsburg Fortress Publishers.