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Lydia Rivera Kalb - 1st Hispanic,
1979
 Lydia E. Rivera Kalb, first
Hispanic Lutheran woman ordained, graduated from the Lutheran School of
Theology in 1979 and was ordained on March 4, 1979 by the Lutheran
Church in America. She served Bethany Lutheran Church, Chicago and
beginning in May 1992, became pastor of Bethel (South) Lutheran Church,
also in Chicago, where she continues to serve today. Pastor Kalb was a
member of the Commission for a New Lutheran Church, 1982-1986.
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