Wilma Kucharek
American bishop
Wilma S. Kucharek (born September 19, 1954) is bishop of the Slovak Zion Synod.
Kucharek was born in Johnson City, New York and baptized in Slovak at Ascension Lutheran in Binghamton, New York. She graduated from Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, Indiana, and earned her M.Div. and STM degrees at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
Before her ordination as a pastor, (Sister) Kucharek was consecrated as a deaconess, serving parishes in Indiana and New York. She served as pastor of Holy Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, from 1982 to 1986; St. John Lutheran Church, St. Clair, Pennsylvania, from 1982 to 1986; and St. John Lutheran Church, Nanticoke, Pennsylvania, from 1983 to 1986. In 1986, she accepted the call to serve as pastor of Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Torrington, Connecticut.
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