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- Title
- Procession of world Lutheran leaders.
- Description
- Text transcribed from caption: P-31598 PROCESSION OF WORLD LUTHERAN LEADERS REYKJAVIK, Iceland -- Leaders of world Lutheranism gathered in Reykjavik, Iceland, for business sessions of the Lutheran World Federation's Executive Committee. Here, the churchmen move in procession to the Cathedral of Reykjavik for a service opening the meeting. At right is Bishop Friedrich-Wilhelm Krummacher of the Evangelical Church of Pomerania, East Germany. Following, in pairs, are Bishop Fridtjov Birkeli of Stavanger, Norway (left), and Bishop Leonard Auala of the Evangelical Lutheran Ovambokavango Church, South-West Africa; Dr. Norman A. Menter of Berkley, Mich., (left), first vice-president of the American Lutheran Church, and Dr. Gerhard Silitonga of Djakarta, treasurer of the Indonesian Council of Churches; Bishop Hanns Lilje of the Church of Hannover, Germany (left) and Bishop Bo Giertz of Gothenburg, Sweden; Bishop Andrzej Wantula of the Polish Lutheran Church (left), and Bishop Stefano R. Moshi of the Lutheran Church in Tanganyika. Others, at rear, from left, include Archbishop Martti Simojoki, Primate of the Lutheran Church of Finland; Dr. Franklin Clark Fry, president of the Lutheran Church in America who was preacher for the service; Dr. Fredrik A. Schiotz, president of the American Lutheran Church and LWF president; Bishop Sigurdbjorn Einarsson of the Church of Iceland, and Bishop Jens Leer Andersen of Elsionore, Denmark. Credit Must Read: RELIGIOUS NEWS SERVICE PHOTO (BD-GS-9D-64-NBM)
- Creator Name(s)
- Dudde, Bill. (photographer)
- Date Created
- 1964
- Name Subject(s)
- Religious News Service--Archives., Lutheran World Federation--Congresses., Hallgrímskirkja (Reykjavík, Iceland), Krummacher, Friedrich Wilhelm, 1901-, Evangelical Church of Pomerania (Pomerania, Poland and Germany), Auala, Leonard, 1908-1983., Evangelical Lutheran Ovambo-Kavango Church (Ondangwa, Namibia), Menter, Norman A., American Lutheran Church (1961-1987), Silitonga, Gerhard., Council of Churches in Indonesia., Lilje, Hanns, 1899-1977., Giertz, Bo, 1905-1998., Wantuła, Andrzej, 1905-1976., Kościół Św. Trójcy (Warsaw, Poland), Moshi, Stefano R., Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanganyika., Fry, Franklin Clark, 1900-1968., United Lutheran Church in America., Schiotz, Fredrik A. (Fredrik Axel), 1901-1989.
- Topical Subject(s)
- Clergy conferences., Congresses and conventions--Iceland--Reykjavík., Lutheran Church--Clergy., Lutheran Church--Congresses.
- Geographic subjects
- Iceland, Reykjavík., Reykjavík (Iceland), Europe--Iceland--Reykjavík--Reykjavík
- Physical Location
- RNS RG 1, Box 105, image no. P-31598; Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia, PA
- Related Item
- Religious News Service Photographs, 1945-1982. --http://www.history.pcusa.org/collections/research-tools/guides-archival-collections/rns-rg-1
- Identifier (local)
- RNS-RG1_P-31598
- (PID) Persistent Identifier
- islandora:349183