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The Lower Susquehanna Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) is one of the 65 ELCA synods, grouped in Region 8 alongside seven other synods in Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, DC.
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Demographics/Geography
The LSS includes approximately 235 congregations and worship communities, with a baptized membership of 98,000. It is entirely contained within central Pennsylvania and covers Adams, Cumberland, Dauphin, Fulton, Franklin, Lebanon, Lancaster, Perry and York counties, including the cities of York, Lancaster and the state capitol of Harrisburg; and also the borough of Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, the home of the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg.
Bishop
The immediate past bishop of the LSS (served until August 31, 2013) was the Rev. B. Penrose Hoover, who was elected to his post on June 9, 2007 and began his six-year term on September 1, 2007. Other prior bishops of the LSS include Carol S. Hendrix and Guy S. Edmiston.
Bishop Hoover was officially installed in his office on October 27, 2007. At the ceremony, his daughter Rabbi Heidi Hoover (then a rabbinical student) offered the Old Testament lesson by chanting Torah in Hebrew. Rabbi Hoover was ordained in the Spring of 2011 by the Academy for Jewish Religion in Riverdale, NY and is currently the rabbi of Temple Beth Emeth v'Ohr Progressive Shaari Zedek in Brooklyn, NY.
On June 8, 2013, the Rev. James S. Dunlop was elected to succeed Bishop Hoover. Rev. Dunlop began his service in the office on September 1.