Joseph Jacobson Follow

Joseph Robert Jacobson was born and raised in a Lutheran parsonage in Wisconsin in the 1940’s and 1950’s. He graduated from St. Olaf College in 1962 and ordained as a Lutheran pastor in 1965. He and his wife, Carolyn, served Lutheran parishes in Alberta, Canada, from 1965-1985 when he was elected the first Bishop of the Alberta Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada. In 1994 they retired to their small farm in Central Alberta. They have 2 grown children and 9 grandchildren.