Theodore Norman Clair "Ted N. C." Wilson (born May 10, 1950) is

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of the General Conference (GC) of the Seventh-day Adventist (SDA) Church.

Family and Education

Wilson was born in

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on May 10, 1950 to

Neal C. Wilson Neal Clayton Wilson (July 5, 1920 – December 14, 2010) served as the president of the General Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church from 1979 to 1990. Wilson was head of the North American Division when elected on January 3, 1979, to ...

(GC president: 1979–1990) and Elinor E. Wilson. He and his wife, Nancy Louise Vollmer Wilson, have three daughters (Emile Louise, Elizabeth Esther, and Catherine Anne) and eleven grandchildren. Wilson's education includes his receiving a

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degree (religion and business administration) from

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(now Washington Adventist University); a

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degree (public health) from

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; a

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degree from Andrews University, and a

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degree (religious education) from

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Career

An ordained minister, Wilson began his church career in 1974 as a pastor in the Greater New York Conference and later as assistant director and director of Metropolitan Ministries there (1976–1981). He then worked in the Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the SDA Church (Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire) until 1990, serving as a departmental director and later as executive secretary. After a two-year term as an associate secretary of the GC in Silver Spring, Maryland, Wilson became president of the Euro-Asia Division (Moscow, Russia), 1992–1996. After serving as president of the church's Review and Herald Publishing Association in Hagerstown, Maryland, he was elected a GC vice president in 2000. At the 59th GC Session (2010) in

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, Georgia, Wilson was elected to replace

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as president of the GC and was relected at the 60th GC Session (July 3, 2015) in San Antonio, Texas. Due to Covid-restrictions, the 61st GC Session (scheduled for 2020) was postponed until 6–11 June 2022 and held in St. Louis, Missouri, where Wilson was again reelected for another five-year term ending in 2025. During his presidency of the GC, Wilson has been engaged in various denominational controversies over biblical, theological, political, and life-style issues, including the writings of Ellen White, creation-evolution, spiritual formation, last generation theology, the ordination of women in pastoral ministry, and human sexuality.

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