Education
In 1982, He graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a bachelors in political science. Both attended Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and graduated with masters of divinity degrees in 1988.
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Paul Stumme-Diers
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Born in 1960 in Waverly, Iowa, Stumme-Diers is the fourth of five children of Herman and Dorothy Diers. Paul and Laurie Stumme-Diers were married in 1983 in Waverly. On August 13, 1989 they were ordained at Saint Paul’s in Waverly.
As a pastor in the synod, Stumme-Diers served as the synod disaster relief coordinator for efforts in Minnesota, Puerto Rico, North Carolina, and New York City.
On June 1, 2002, he was elected to a six-year term as bishop of the Greater Milwaukee Synod. He succeeded Peter Rogness, who served as bishop since the Greater Milwaukee Synod was created in 1988.
He was re-elected to a second and final six-year term in 2008. In 2009, Stumme-Diers announced his resignation from the office of bishop to return to local parish ministry.
Membership
Stumme-Diers also served on the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and as a board member of Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and Wartburg Theological Seminary.
