{"id":4201,"date":"2014-05-19T13:40:54","date_gmt":"2014-05-19T13:40:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=4201"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:36:32","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:36:32","slug":"former-campus-ministry-staff-named-bishop-st-paul-area-synod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2014\/05\/19\/former-campus-ministry-staff-named-bishop-st-paul-area-synod\/","title":{"rendered":"Former campus ministry staff named bishop of St. Paul Area Synod"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1397077635254.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3927 alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2014\/03\/StarTrib-e1400513865356.jpeg\" alt=\"Minneapolis Star Tribune\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a>Rev. Patricia Lull was elected the first female bishop of the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Lull, who served as staff for Augsburg&#8217;s campus ministry, was elected on the fifth ballot. Previously, Lull was executive director of the St. Paul Area Council of Churches. Read &#8220;ELCA&#8217;s east metro synod selects its first woman as bishop&#8221; in the Star Tribune.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rev. Patricia Lull was elected the first female bishop of the St. Paul Area Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Lull, who served as staff for Augsburg&#8217;s campus ministry, was elected on the fifth ballot. Previously, Lull was executive director of the St. Paul Area Council of Churches. Read &#8220;ELCA&#8217;s east metro synod &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[3268,495,3258,3259],"class_list":["post-4201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-staff","tag-3268","tag-campus-ministry","tag-elca","tag-patricia-lull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4201"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11864,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4201\/revisions\/11864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}