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FJELD, Roger (Reverend)
FJELD, Roger (Reverend) (Primghar, IA- ). President, WARTBURG THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY. In 1983 Fjeld became the eleventh president of Wartburg in its 130-year history. Fjeld took his undergraduate degree from Wartburg and a master's degree in Reformation and Renaissance history and doctorate in American Intellectual History from the University of Colorado, Boulder.
Fjeld returned to Wartburg in 1971 as coordinator of the internship program and pastor to the seminary community. He left in 1973 to become director of the American Lutheran Church's Office of Support to Ministries. Elected president of Wartburg in September 1983, Fjeld took office in December 1983.