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Kathryn M. Lohre '99 voted President Elect of the National Council of Churches

By David Gonnerman '90
November 10, 2009

Kathryn M. Lohre '99, assistant director of the Pluralism Project at Harvard University and an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America representative to the World Council of Churches Central Committee, has been elected the President Elect of the National Council of Churches by the NCC Governing Board.

Lohre will assume the office Jan. 1, 2010, after being installed Nov. 12 in St. Mark's Cathedral in Minneapolis. Lohre, 32, will be 34 when it is time to succeed to the National Council of Churches Presidency in 2012. She will be the second youngest president of the Council since the Rev. Dr. M. William Howard, an American Baptist, became president in 1979 at the age of 33.

Contact David Gonnerman at 507-786-3315 or gonnermd@stolaf.edu.