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The Rev. Darrell Morton
The Rev. Darrell D. Morton, Woodbridge, Virginia, is the
Assistant to the Presiding Bishop for Federal Chaplaincy
Ministries of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
(ELCA), a position he assumed on July 1, 2005. In that
capacity he acts as the ELCA endorsing agent for all
ELCA federal chaplains, which include chaplains of the
Department of Veterans Affairs, Federal Bureau of
Prisons, the military chaplaincies and the Civil Air
Patrol; and serves as the ELCA liaison with those
federal agencies.
In his last military assignment Chaplain Morton served
as Chief of Personnel and Readiness, Office of the Air
Force Chief of Chaplains, Washington, D.C. He served as
chair of the Ethics Advisory Committee to the Air Force
Chief of Chaplains, and represented the Air Force on the
Personnel Advisory Group of the Armed Forces Chaplains
Board -- an organization that advises the U.S. Secretary
of Defense.
Pastor Morton was ordained a minister of Word and
Sacrament in the American Lutheran Church (a constituent
body of the ELCA) on January 2, 1977. He served Laporte
Lutheran Parish, a parish of three congregations in
northern Minnesota, from that time until he entered
active duty chaplaincy in the United States Air Force,
in June 1980. He retired from the Air Force July 1,
2005, in order to accept this call to serve as the
Assistant to the Presiding Bishop for Federal Chaplaincy
Ministries. He is on the clergy roster of the ELCA
Metropolitan Washington, D.C., Synod and is a member of
St. Matthews Lutheran Church, Lakeridge, Virginia.
Pastor Morton graduated from California State
University, Los Angeles, in 1971. He earned a master of
divinity degree from Lutheran Brethren Seminary, Fergus
Falls, Minnesota in 1975, and was certified for
ordination in the ELCA by Luther Seminary, St. Paul. He
and his wife Wendy have four adult children.
The ELCA Department for Synodical and Constituent
Relations oversees the work of the ELCA Bureau for
Federal Chaplaincy Ministries, which provides support
for the ELCA's active duty and reserve military
chaplains, as well as clergy in other federal
chaplaincies. The bureau is based in Washington, D.C.
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