CONTACTING ZION:
PASTOR'S RESUME

ZION CHURCH OF BALTIMORE

Experience

2000 - Present

 ZION CHURCH      Baltimore, MD

Pastor

§     Pastor on the roster of the ELCA
http://www.elca.org

§     Member, Baltimore City Council President’s Faith Group Advisory Board

§     Secretary of DELKINA (Deutsche Evangelisch-Lutherische Konferenz in Nordamerika, German Speaking Interest Conference)

§     Member, International Bonhoeffer Society,
US section http://www.dbonhoeffer.org 
German section http://www.ekir.de/esz/ibg/

 1999–2000 

WICHERNKIRCHE                 Hamburg, Germany

Pastor

§     President of Church Council, Wichernkirche
http://www.kirche-hamburg.de/kirche.hamburg/gemeinden/one.vcard/index.html?entry=page.kg.1123304311

§     Member, Liturgical Commission Northelbian Ev.-Luth. Church
http://www.nordelbien.de

§     Delegate, Hamburg council of churches

 1993–1999

ST. NICOLAI                               Mölln, Germany

Pastor

§     Delegate to regional church synod
http://www.kirche-im-lauenburgischen.de

§     Delegate to federal assembly of Martin-Luther-Bund
http://www.martin-luther-bund.de/

§     Chairman, board of directors, paraments (church textile) workshop, Ratzeburg

§     Special project: Memorial to children of Eastern European forced laborers during WWII on local cemetery
http://www.realschule-moelln.de/unterrichtsprojekte.htm 

 1991–1993

BUGENHAGENKIRCHE         Hamburg, Germany

http://www.kirche-hamburg.de/kirche.hamburg/gemeinden/one.vcard/index.html?entry=page.kg.1123303481

Vikar (Pastor in Training)

1995/99 

Christian-Albrechts-Universität        Kiel, Germany

§     Doctor of Theology (Dr. theol., PhD Equivalent)  Magna Cum Laude.
Title of thesis:
Franz Hildebrandt. Ein lutherische Dissenter im Kirchenkampf und Exil. (Arbeiten zur Kirchlichen Zeitgeschichte, Reihe B, Darstellungen 11) Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 1999. 350pp.
for a review see:
www.calvin.edu/academic/cas/akz/akz2005.htm

Christian-Albrechts-Universität        Kiel, Germany

§      Graduate Studies with a scholarship from the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German National Merit Foundation)
http://www.studienstiftung.de/

   Christian-Albrechts-Universität        Kiel, Germany

§     Church Examination (M.Div. Equivalent), Graduated first of class

§     Research Asssistant, Dietrich-Bonhoeffer-Werke, vol. 10
http://www.dbonhoeffer.org

 Keble College, Oxford University         Oxford, GB

§     Visiting Student, member of Chapel Choir
http://www.keble.ox.ac.uk

 Katharineum zu Lübeck            Lübeck, Germany

§     Abitur. Valedictorian at Graduation.
http://www.tzl.de/katharineum/html/index.html

Lübecker Knabenkantorei          Lübeck, Germany

§     Member, Lübeck Boys’ Choir
http://www.knabenkantorei.de

 1969-1973  

Anna-Siemsen-Schule              Lübeck, Germany

§     Elementary School

Family

Born July 25, 1962, Lübeck, Germany http://www.luebeck.de

siblings: Peter Roggelin (http://www.rwwd.de/ansprechpartner/roggelin.htm), Jens Roggelin and Hannelore Diesterheft, geb. Roggelin

Married Alexandra Mattern, September 1993