Education
In 1955 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pepperdine University, continuing to study for a M.Th. degree which he obtained from the Luther Seminary.
In 1955 he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pepperdine University, continuing to study for a M.Th. degree which he obtained from the Luther Seminary.
Egertson maintained a happy upbringing, entering the priesthood during his early lifetime. Egertson was active with an education role since 1972, having served as an Adjunct Professor at the California Lutheran University between 1972 and 1984. He continued his association with the same university after 1984, however timing commitments restricted his ability to remain professor, he remained on the Chartered Life Underwriter faculty serving as a Senior Lecturer in the College of Arts and Sciences, having taught both part-time and full-time.
Egertson"s specialities were noted as: Dispute Mediation, Preaching, Persuasion and religion in America.
Egertson is credited with having served as the university"s Director of the Center for Theological Study, and also for his role in establishing night courses at the university. Egertson died suddenly in his home in Thousand Oaks, California on the afternoon of January 5, 2011.
He served in episcopal office from 1995 until 2001, when he resigned one month before the end of his term, due primarily to his controversial stance toward homosexuality, having ordained a lesbian pastor Anita C. Hill, and publicly disagreed with other prominent church officials over the matter.