This is a listing of the major offices within the Lutheran churches, as well as significant individual Lutheran clergy.
Lists of Lutheran bishops and archbishops
- Presidents of the Lutheran World Federation
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- Presidents, Evangelical Lutheran Synod (ELS)
- List of Ephoruses in Batak Christian Protestant Church
- Land provosts and state bishop, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Eutin (1921âÂÂ1976)
- List of Lutheran bishops of Hamar
- Bishops of Hamburg, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977âÂÂ2008)
- Bishops of Hamburg-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Hamburg, 2008â to date)
- State bishops, Evangelical-Lutheran State Church of Hanover
- Bishops of Helsinki
- Lutheran bishops of Hólar
- Bishops of Holstein-Lübeck, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Lübeck, 1977âÂÂ2008)
- Bishops of Iceland
- List of bishops of Lund (Earlier names on the list are Catholic)
- Presidents & Bishops, Lutheran Church in Malaysia and Singapore
- Leading persons and bishops, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg
- Bishops of Schleswig, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Schleswig-Holstein (1925âÂÂ1976), North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (1977âÂÂ2008)
- Bishops of Schleswig and Holstein, North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church (seat: Schleswig, 2008â to date)
- Bishops, Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK)
- Lutheran bishops of Skálholt
- Lutheran Bishops of Turku and Archbishops of Turku and Finland
- Lutheran Archbishops of Uppsala
- Presidents, Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
- Leading persons and state bishops, Evangelical State Church in Württemberg
Additional Lutheran leaders
List of clergy
Academics
- Thomas R. Ahlersmeyer (b. 1954) - President of Concordia University, Ann Arbor, Michigan
- Kristian Anker (1848-1928) - President of the combined Trinity Seminary and Dana College
- Anton Marius Andersen (1847-1941) - Founding President of Trinity Seminary at Dana College
- Georg M. Grossmann (1823-1897) - Founder of Wartburg College
- Theodore Marcus Hansen (1886-1973) - President of Dana College and Trinity Seminary
- John N. Kildahl (1857-1920) - Lutheran church minister, author and educator, President of St. Olaf College
- O. P. Kretzmann (1901-1975) - President of Valparaiso University, Lutheran pastor, author, and professor
- Peter Laurentius Larsen - Founding president of Luther College.
- Knud Ejler Løgstrup (1905-1981) - Danish philosopher and theologian. Pastor at Sandager- Holevad from 1936âÂÂ1943. Professor at University of Aarhus from 1943-1975
- Thorbjorn N. Mohn (1844-1899) - Founding president of St. Olaf College
- Bernt Julius Muus (1832-1900) - Founder of St. Olaf College
- Robert Preus (1924-1995) - Lutheran pastor, professor, author, and seminary president
- Stephan Ludwig Roth (1796-1849) - Transylvanian educationist.
- Jacob Tanner (1865-1964) - Norwegian American Lutheran educator and religious author
- John Tietjen (1928-2004) - Noted for the Seminex controversy.
- Peter Sørensen Vig (1854-1929) - President of Trinity Seminary and the president of Dana College
Activists
Explorers and colonizers
Missionaries
Monastics
Politicians
Theologians
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer - A founding member of the Confessing Church who was executed by Nazi Germany.
- Otto von Gerlach - Nineteenth-century German.
- N. F. S. Grundtvig - Danish pastor, author, poet and author of hymns
- Oswald Hoffmann - Clergyman and speaker on The Lutheran Hour.
- Ernst Käsemann - New Testament studies, also active against Nazism.
- Johann Konrad Wilhelm Löhe - Celebrated by ELCA and LCMS.
- Martin Luther - German professor of theology, composer, priest, monk, with whose teachings Lutheranism is associated.
- Martin Niemöller - Former U-boat captain who became a theologian and, after initial enthusiasm, turned against Nazism.
- Jacob Aall Ottesen - Norwegian American minister, theologian and church leader
- Gunnar Rosendal (1897-1988) - Swedish theologian of High Church Lutheranism.
Writers
See also
Citations