Tag: Rev. Kristen Kuempel bishop spokane

She posts inspirational memes, notes on how people can contribute to area wildfire relief and, recently, reminders about Saturday. That’s when throngs of clergy and parishioners will assemble at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church to install her as the next bishop of the Eastern Washington-Idaho Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. Kuempel will be the synod’s first female bishop.