Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter

Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter (also known as Bärbel von Wartenberg-Potter) (born 1943) is a German theologian. After serving as director over programs for women and children with the World Council of Churches, teaching theology in Jamaica, and serving a pastorate in Stuttgart, Wartenberg-Potter became the president of the . In 2001 she began a seven-year term as the third woman serving as a Bishop of a Lutheran Church in Germany.

Biography Bärbel Wartenberg was born on 16 September 1943 in Pirmasens, Rhenish Palatinate, Germany. In 1963, she began her university education graduating in 1968 with a master's degree in German languages and literature and a teaching degree. Wartenberg passed her theological examination for the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Württemberg. Between 1970 and 1972, she participated in mission and development work with the Evangelical-Catholic Association. Her first marriage broke down in grief and pain. and served as a regional pastor in Württemberg for three years. in Geneva, Switzerland.

After her second marriage, and until 1990, Wartenberg-Potter taught at the United Theological College of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. In 2009, she joined the Institute for Theological Zoology as the Chairman of the Board of Trustees.

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