John Bradosky

The Reverend
John F. Bradosky
1st Bishop of the NALC
Former General Secretary of the NALC
Bishop John Bradosky presides over an ordination service at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church in Columbus, Ohio.
Church North American Lutheran Church
In office 2011-Present
Orders
Ordination 1979 ELCA
Consecration August 11, 2011
by Rev. Paull Spring (former Provisional Bishop of the NALC and former Bishop of the ELCA Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod), Rev. Ralph Kempski (former Bishop of the ELCA Indiana-Kentucky Synod), Rev. Henry Schulte (former Bishop of the ELCA Southwestern Texas Synod), Rev. Ron Warren (former Bishop of the ELCA Southeastern Synod), and Rev. Dr. Berhanu Ofga’a (General Secretary of the EECMY)[1]
Personal details
Born (1952-05-03) May 3, 1952
Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Previous post Pastor of Epiphany Lutheran Church (Dayton, Ohio); General Secretary of the NALC

John F. Bradosky (born 1952) is an American Lutheran Bishop. He has been the first elected Bishop of the North American Lutheran Church, since his election on 11 August 2011. He followed Rev. Paull Spring, who served as the NALC Provisional Bishop from its inception, and was the former Bishop of the ELCA Northwestern Pennsylvania Synod. Bradosky is married to Kristi and they had four children, one of whom died at the age of 6 years in a car accident.

Ecclesiastical career

Bradosky graduated from the Hamma School of Theology at Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, and from Indiana University of Pennsylvania at Indiana, Pennsylvania.[2]

He had 32 years of pastoral experience when he was elected the first Bishop of the NALC, having served in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. He was senior pastor of St. John Lutheran Church, in Springfield, Ohio, Trinity Lutheran Church, in Canton, Ohio, and Grace Lutheran Church, in Huntington Beach, California. He was the senior pastor of the Epiphany Lutheran Church, in Dayton, Ohio, when he joined the North American Lutheran Church upon its creation in June 2010. He was appointed General Secretary of the NALC in January 2011.

He was the first elected Bishop of the North American Lutheran Church at their Convocation, which reunited around 800 Lutherans at Upper Arlington Lutheran Church in Hilliard, Ohio, on 11 August 2011, to serve for a four-year term.[3] His installation service was attended by the Rt. Rev. Ray Sutton (representing the Anglican Church in North America), the Rev. Dr. Joseph Small (representing the Presbyterian Church (USA)), as well as the Rev. Dr. Berhanu Ofga’a (representing the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus).[4] He was reelected for another four-year term at the NALC Convocation, on 13 August 2015.[5]

References

  1. ↑ North American Lutheran Church elects new bishop, makes plans for mission and evangelism, 17 August 2011
  2. ↑ John Bradosky Biography and Interview, NALC Documents
  3. ↑ John Bradosky elected bishop of North American Lutheran Church, Free Republic, 13 August 2011
  4. ↑ CORE Connection - News from Lutheran CORE, August/September 2011
  5. ↑ John Bradosky reelected NALC Bishop, North American Lutheran Church Official Website, 13 August 2015



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