The Reverend Richard F. Bansemer (born May 26, 1940) is a

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pastor who served as

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of the Virginia Synod from 1987-1999. Richard F. Bansemer was born to Reinhold Matthias and Oralee Ann Brierly Bansemer. Bansemer was ordained in 1966, with a Bachelor of Divinity from Southern Seminary. He holds honorary Doctor of Divinity Degrees from

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in Salem, Virginia, and from

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, Newberry, South Carolina. He married Miss Mary Ann Troutman in 1971. The Reverend Bansemer served University Lutheran in Gainesville Florida (1966-1968), and then St. John parish in Roanoke from 1968-1973, and was then called to serve as pastor and mission developer of Lord of the Mountains Lutheran in

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. From 1978-1987 he served Rural Retreat Parish (Grace and St. Paul) in

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, and then served as Bishop of the Virginia Synod from 1987 until his retirement in 1999.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bansemer, Richard F. 20th-century American Lutheran bishops Evangelical Lutheran Church in America bishops 1940 births Living people People from Rural Retreat, Virginia