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Bishop Election 2025

Information for electing a new Bishop in the New Jersey Synod, ELCA

NJ Synod Bishop Profile

Perfil de Obispo/a/e del Sínodo de New Jersey 

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For Those Discerning

Questions for Discernment - Bishop

Important Dates:

​New Bishop Formation event - June 22-25, 2025

ELCA Churchwide Assembly - July 27-Aug 2, 2025

Installation of the new Bishop - August 23, 2025

New Bishop begins - September 1, 2025

 

An outside vendor is used for background checks and screenings. These include county, state,
and federal criminal checks. If applicable, education and credit checks may also be applied.

If you plan to leave your name on the ballot for Bishop, and you have not had a background
check within the past year, please click on the link below to authorize a background check that
will be conducted by DataSource Background Screening and paid for by the New Jersey
Synod.

If you have had a background check in the last year please submit proof to lparrett@njsynod.org

Thank you.

https://newjerseysynodelca.quickapp.pro/forms

Completed documents can be submitted at any time to bishopelection@njsynod.org

1930 State Highway 33

Hamilton Square, NJ 08690

609-586-6800

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“Our synod office is located on land which is part of the traditional territory of the Lenni-Lenape, called “Lenapehoking.” The Lenape People lived in harmony with one another upon this territory for thousands of years. During the colonial era and early federal period, many were removed west and north, but some also remain among the continuing historical tribal communities of the region: The Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation; the Ramapough Lenape Nation; and the Powhatan Renape Nation, The Nanticoke of Millsboro Delaware, and the Lenape of Cheswold Delaware. We acknowledge the Lenni-Lenape as the original people of this land and their continuing relationship with their territory. In our acknowledgment of the continued presence of Lenape people in their homeland, we affirm the aspiration of the great Lenape Chief Tamanend, that there be harmony between the indigenous people of this land and the descendants of the immigrants to this land, “as long as the rivers and creeks flow, and the sun, moon, and stars shine.”

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