Katrina Foster

Katrina D. Foster is an American Lutheran prelate who has served as the Bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America since May 3, 2025. She is the first woman and the first openly gay person to serve as bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod.

Education Foster earned a bachelor of arts degree in religion, philosophy, and sociology from Newberry College in 1990. She later served as a pastor at St. Michael's Lutheran Church in Amagansett and at Incarnation Lutheran Church in Bridgehampton from 2010 to 2015.

Episcopacy On May 3, 2025, Foster was elected to serve a six-year term as the bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. She was elected on the fifth ballot with 196 votes, finishing ahead of Rev. Stephanie Jaeger of Trinity Lutheran Church, who received 144 votes. Foster is the first woman and the first openly gay bishop of the Metropolitan New York Synod. She was formally installed on November 22, 2025 at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine by Presiding Bishop Yehiel Curry. They have one daughter, Zoia.