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Tessa Moon Leiseth, Moorhead, Minn., was reelected June 7 to serve a second six-year term as bishop of the Eastern North Dakota Synod of the ELCA. The election took place during the synod assembly, June 5-7 at the Holiday Inn in Fargo, N.D.
The bishop was reelected on the fifth ballot, with 137 votes. Joe Johnson, pastor of Our Savior Lutheran Church in Hillsboro, N.D., had 117 votes. A total of 127 votes was needed for election.
Moon Leiseth has served as the synod’s bishop since 2020. Previously, she served as interim senior pastor of Horace (N.D.) Lutheran Church from 2019 to 2020 and as interim pastor of Christ the King Lutheran Church in Moorhead, from 2018 to 2019. She was the Southern Africa country coordinator for ELCA Young Adults in Global Mission from 2012 to 2017 and campus pastor of Concordia College in Moorhead from 2008 to 2012. Concordia is one of 26 ELCA colleges and universities. Moon Leiseth also was associate pastor of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in East Bethel, Minn., from 2000 to 2006; youth and family pastor of Abiding Savior Lutheran Church in Mounds View, Minn., from 1998 to 2000; and intern pastor of Baudette (Minn.) Lutheran Parish from 1996 to 1997.
