Paul Stumme-Diers

Paul Stumme-Diers (born 1960) was a bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) Greater Milwaukee Synod.

He was baptized at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in Waverly and graduated from Waverly-Shell Rock Senior High School.

In 1982, he graduated from Pacific Lutheran University in Tacoma, Washington with a bachelor's degree in political science.

Both attended Wartburg Theological Seminary in Dubuque, Iowa and graduated with masters of divinity degrees in 1988.

He currently serves as pastor of Bethany Lutheran Church of Bainbridge Island, Wash. Stumme-Diers also served on the Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee and as a board member of Carthage College in Kenosha, Wisconsin, Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and Upper Michigan, and Wartburg Theological Seminary.