Musa Panti Filibus

Musa Panti Filibus (* 1960 ) is a Nigerian Lutheran clergyman. He is Archbishop of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria ( English Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria - LCCN), and since May 2017, the 13th president of the Lutheran World Federation .

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Musa Panti Filibus studied Lutheran theology in Nigeria and the USA and was ordained a pastor in 1994 . In 1998 he received his doctorate ( PhD ) in pastoral theology at the Luther Seminary of the ELCA in Saint Paul, Minnesota .

From 2002 to 2010 he was regional officer for Africa in the Department for Mission and Development (AME) of the Lutheran World Federation in Geneva . In 2010 he was appointed Director of the Department for Mission and Development and in 2012 he was appointed Deputy Secretary General. In 2013 he was appointed Bishop of the Mayo Belwa Diocese ( Adamawa State ) of the Lutheran Church of Christ in Nigeria and was elected Archbishop of the Church in 2016. On May 13, 2017, he was elected President of the Lutheran World Federation at the General Assembly in Windhoek (Namibia).

He is married to pastor Ruth Filibus. The couple has three grown children.

Publications

• So the poor have hope, and injustice shuts its mouth: poverty and the mission of the Church in Africa (with Karen L. Bloomquist, ed.), The Lutheran World Federation, Geneva 2007, ISBN 978-3-90567654-9 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nigerian Archbishop Filibus is the new LWF President , LWF message dated May 13, 2017, accessed on May 16, 2017
2. ↑ Two international Alums appointed to new leadership positions for LWF , Report of Luther Seminary in 2011, accessed on May 16, 2017
3. ↑ Nigeria: LWF AME Director Musa Filibus to Become Diocesan Bishop , lutheranworld.org , article January 31, 2013.
4. ↑ Lutheran World Federation: An African elected to the top , idea.de, message from May 14, 2017.