Gloria Rojas Vargas

Gloria Rojas Vargas is a Lutheran theologian and was church president in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile until 2011 .

Life

Vargas studied Protestant theology after leaving school and was ordained in 1985 as the first woman in her church . She is a doctor of theology. In 2001 she became church president of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Chile.

From July 2010 to May 2017 she was one of the seven vice-presidents of the Lutheran World Federation .

In 2011 she handed over her office of church president to the theologian Luis Alvarez and has since been pastor in Punta Arenas , the southernmost Lutheran congregation in the world. In 2014, she was called by President Michelle Bachelet as a pastor to the Presidential Palace.

Individual evidence

↑ Los luteranos queremos compartir la gracia de la liberación on the 2017 LWF Assembly website.
↑ Lutheran Service. Journal of the Martin Luther Association in cooperation with the DNK / LWB , volume 47, 2011, issue 1, page 18
↑ Chile: LWF Vice President Rev. Dr. Gloria Rojas Vargas appointed as the new pastor in the presidential palace , press release of the Lutheran World Federation, May 27, 2014.

personal data
SURNAME	Vargas, Gloria Rojas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Chilean Lutheran theologian and Church President
DATE OF BIRTH	20th century
PLACE OF BIRTH	Chile

[1] Los luteranos queremos compartir la gracia de la liberación on the 2017 LWF Assembly website.

[2] Lutheran Service. Journal of the Martin Luther Association in cooperation with the DNK / LWB , volume 47, 2011, issue 1, page 18

[3] Chile: LWF Vice President Rev. Dr. Gloria Rojas Vargas appointed as the new pastor in the presidential palace , press release of the Lutheran World Federation, May 27, 2014.