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Dr. Karl Barth is a 1947 graduate of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. As a parish pastor for more than twenty years, he served congregations in Louisiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin.
In 1970 he was elected president of the South Wisconsin District of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod and from 1982 to 1990 was president of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri. Concordia Theological Seminary, Springfield, Illinois awarded him the honorary Doctor of Divinity degree in 1975
Dr. Barth served 16 years on Synod’s commission on theology and church relations and was its chair from 1974-19. He has also been a member of the LCMS board of directors, the board for mission services, and represented Synod on the division of theological studies of the Lutheran Council USA. In 1997 he directed the 150th anniversary of The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod and has served on various boards of the church. His duties for Synod have afforded him the opportunity to travel extensively to partner churches and seminaries in Europe, Africa and Asia.
Today Barth and his wife, Jean, reside at Harwood Place in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin and are members of Mt. Calvary, in Milwaukee. They have been married for 61 years and have five children, four of whom live in the Milwaukee area, 10 grandchildren, and 13 great-grandchildren, with another one due in June.
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