Robert Jacobson

Robert Jacobson (Joseph R. Jacobson; Robert Jacobson) (born 1940 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA) is a former Lutheran Bishop, who became a Roman Catholic priest upon his conversion from being a Lutheran minister. He was formerly Bishop Robert Jacobson, Bishop of the Alberta Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.[1]

Origin and Lutheran ministry

Jacobson was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1940, the son of a Lutheran minister.[2] He earned his bachelor of arts from Saint Olaf College and his bachelor of divinity from the Strasbourg University, France, before graduating from Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary in Minneapolis in 1965.

After serving four Lutheran parishes in Alberta and homeschooling in the early 1980s, in 1985 he was elected the first bishop of the Alberta Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada.[2][3] Jacobsen served in missions all over Canada, serving in that position for 10 years.

During his term as Lutheran bishop, Jacobson became ordained many women as ministers but he said that doesn't mean he endorses it for the Catholic Church.

Conversion to Roman Catholicism and ordination as Catholic priest

In 1998, almost five years after he took "early retirement" as Lutheran bishop, Archbishop Joseph MacNeil invited Jacobson to consider becoming a priest. Jacobson and his wife Carolyne, who live on a farm near Bashaw, joined the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults at Immaculate Heart of Mary Parish in Bashaw in 1999 and became Catholics at the Easter Vigil of 2000.[4]

Jacobson's conversion is also due to him to have served as co-chairman of the Lutheran-Catholic theological dialogue for Canada for almost eight years together with Vancouver Archbishop Adam Exner.

Forty years after he was ordained a Lutheran minister, Jacobson converted to Roman Catholicism and became a Catholic priest on February 2, 2007 in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Grouard-McLennan, Canada.[2][5]

Other issues

Jacobson also pursues interests in botany and animal life as well as in music and poetry. A prolific writer, he has written several books, the latest being All Nature Sings, a book of poems that speaks about creation and new creation through the eyes of the Scriptures.

Jacobson is fluent beside English in German, French and Spanish.

Family

Robert Jacobsen is married to Carolyn and has two sons and five grandsons.[6]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Legge, Gordon (19 May 1990). "Lutherans adopt measures to help re-elected bishop". Calgary Herald.
  2. 1 2 3 Miller, Chris (11 April 2014). "Protestantism’s ‘fatal flaw’ draws Lutheran to Catholic Church". The Catholic Register. Canadian Catholic News. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  3. ↑ thecatholicthing.org/2015/01/07/time-lutheran-ordinariate/
  4. ↑ Drake, Tim (18 March 2011). "The Lutheran Landslide". National Catholic Register. Retrieved 5 January 2016.
  5. ↑ Olsen, Mac (16 July 2014). "Father Joseph Jacobson bids farewell to McLennan, returning to central Alberta". Smoky River Express.
  6. ↑ freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1709272/posts?page=1

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