Gordon W. Lathrop

Gordon W. Lathrop has served as a parish pastor, as professor of liturgy at Wartburg Theological Seminary (Dubuque) and the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, and as a visiting professor at Yale Divinity School, the Virginia Theological Seminary, the University of Iceland, the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and the Pontifical Thomas Aquinas University in Rome. He has degrees from Occidental College (Los Angeles) and Luther Theological Seminary (St. Paul), and a doctorate in New Testament studies from the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands, where he studied with Edward Schillebeeckx and Bastiaan van Iersel. He also has honorary doctorates in theology from the University of Helsinki, the University of Iceland, the Virginia Theological Seminary, and Wartburg Theological Seminary. He has been president of both Societas Liturgica and the North American Academy of Liturgy.