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Article: ELCA's Hanson sees new ecumenism agenda. (news).(Mark S. Hanson names head of Evangelical Lutheran Church in America)(Brief Article)
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- The Christian Century
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- October 24, 2001
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In rites highlighting its bridge-building success in ecumenism, the nation's biggest Lutheran denomination has installed Mark S. Hanson as its new presiding bishop in Chicago. The former bishop of St. Paul, Minnesota, begins his six-year term on November 1 at the head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
Hanson, elected in August, succeeds H. George Anderson, who is retiring, and inherits leadership that assembled in the 1990s an unparalleled five full-communion pacts with other denominations. They are the Episcopal Church, the Moravian Church in America, the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.), the Reformed Church in America and the United Church of Christ, ...