CHICAGO (ELCA) -- The Rev. Robert D. Berg was re-elected May 31 to a six-year term as bishop of the Northwest Synod of Wisconsin of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) at the synod assembly in Eau Claire, Wis. Berg, 53, has been serving as bishop of the synod since 1995.
Berg was re-elected on the first ballot for bishop with 285 votes, over the Rev. Mark A. Olson, Hope Lutheran Church, Eau Claire, Wis., who received 21 votes. Two others tied for third with five votes each. There were 37 names on the nominating ballot.
Berg, a native of Eau Claire, Wis., served as senior pastor at Chetek Lutheran Church in Chetek, Wis., before he was elected bishop. He served congregations in Zeeland and Kintyre, N.D., and Cumberland and Balsam Lake, Wis.
Berg earned a bachelor's degree in psychology and sociology in 1970 from the University of Wisconsin in Eau Claire. He completed seminary at Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minn., and was ordained in 1979.
Berg and his wife Roxanne have two adult daughters.
The ELCA Northwest Synod of Wisconsin has 105,139 baptized members in 213 congregations. Its offices are located in Rice Lake, Wis.
[*Sue Hildebrand is synod supplement editor for The Lutheran, the
magazine of the ELCA, and newsletter editor for the ELCA Northwest Synod
of Wisconsin.]
[*Michelle T. Mills is a senior at Bradley University, Peoria, Ill.
This summer she is an intern with ELCA News and Information.]
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