William Gohl elected bishop of ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod

          CHICAGO (ELCA) – The Rev. William J. Gohl Jr., Baltimore, was elected June 4 to a six-year term as bishop of the Delaware-Maryland Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). The election was held during the Synod Assembly June 2-4 at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City, Md.
          Gohl was elected on the fifth ballot with 227 votes to 225 votes for the Rev. Wolfgang Herz-Lane, current bishop of the synod. Herz-Lane, who was elected in 2010, served one term as bishop.
          "I am grateful and humbled to be invited by the Delaware-Maryland Synod to bring my pastoral heart, shaped the last 17 years by my service with congregations of this synod, to this new work," said Gohl. "What a sense of possibility lays before us as we take up the glad work of sharing the good news together.
          Gohl has served as a pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church in Baltimore since 2007. He served as evangelism coordinator for the ELCA Delaware-Maryland Synod from 2004 to 2010 and was pastor of Peace Lutheran Church in Glen Burnie, Md., from 2000 to 2007.
          The bishop-elect earned a Bachelor of Arts from Gettysburg College in Gettysburg, Pa., one of 26 ELCA colleges and universities. Gohl earned a Master of Divinity from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, one of eight ELCA seminaries.
          Information about the Delaware-Maryland Synod is available at demdsynod.org/.

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The ELCA is one of the largest Christian denominations in the United States, with more than 3.7 million members in more than 9,300 congregations across the 50 states and in the Caribbean region. Known as the church of "God's work. Our hands," the ELCA emphasizes the saving grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ, unity among Christians and service in the world. The ELCA's roots are in the writings of the German church reformer, Martin Luther.

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