Background
Lolla, John Joseph was born on June 16, 1953 in Norwalk, Ohio, United States. Son of John Jay Senior and Mildred Jane (Hoyt) Lolla.
Lolla, John Joseph was born on June 16, 1953 in Norwalk, Ohio, United States. Son of John Jay Senior and Mildred Jane (Hoyt) Lolla.
Bachelor, College Wooster, 1976; Master of Divinity, Princton Theological Seminary, 1980.
Assistant minister, Southminster Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, 1980-1983;
minister, Presbyterian Church Plum Creek, Pittsburgh, since 1983. Chair peacemaking task force Pittsburgh Presbytery, 1984-1986, chair MiddleEast youth tour, 1986-1991, member general county, since 1989, evaluation and budgeting, 1988-1990, chairman, 1990, planning and finance, since 1991, chairman, since 1991;chairperson Shalom I, II, III, IV conferences, 1984-1989, interim committee, 1990. Member Anne Frank Exhibit Clergy Advisory Committee, 1989-1990.
Presbytery commissioner to Synod, 1990. Presbytery commissioner to General Assembly, 1992.
Member Jewish-Christian Dialogue, Pittsburgh, 1988-1989, Reformed-Catholic Dialogue, Pitts, 1989-1989. Member clergy advising committee Forbes Regional Hospital, since 1989. Member Pittsburgh Presbytery, The Pittsburgh Cleric.
Married Julie Ann Else, May 7, 1977. Children: Meredith Ann, Carolyn Elizabeth.