Jen Nagel, Minneapolis, was elected May 4 to serve a six-year term as bishop of the Minneapolis Area Synod. The election took place during the synod assembly, May 2-4 at Lord of Life Lutheran Church in Ramsey, Minn.
Nagel was elected on the fifth ballot, with 316 votes. Natalia Terfa, a pastor of Prince of Peace Lutheran Church, Brooklyn Park, Minn., received 146 votes.
The bishop-elect has served as a pastor of University Lutheran Church of Hope in Minneapolis since 2015. Previously she served as pastor of Salem English Lutheran Church in Minneapolis (2003 to 2015) and as a teaching staff coordinator at Holden Village, Chelan, Wash. (2011).
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