Regina Hassanally

Regina Hassanally is a bishop in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA). She is bishop for the Southeastern Minnesota Synod. She was elected as bishop in 2019.

Education Hassanally attended Northwestern College from 2001 until 2005, graduating with a Bachelors Degree in Biology Health Professions. She then attended Palmer Theological Seminary from 2005 until 2008, graduating with a Master of Divinity Degree.

Ministry Hassanally served as director of shared ministry at St. John’s Lutheran Church in Northfield, Minnesota from 2008-2012. She was later pastor of St. Luke Lutheran Church in Goodhue, Minnesota from 2012-2019.

In 2019, she was elected as bishop of the Southeastern Minnesota Synod for a six-year term. She was re-elected in 2025. In 2019, she was elected on the fifth ballot, and she was re-elected in 2025 on the first ballot with 91% of the vote. She is the first woman to hold the position. As bishop, she has been an advocate against gun violence.

Hassanally gave a speech at a vigil following the killing of Renée Good.