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Ted N. C. Wilson
Former President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Theodore Norman Clair Wilson (born May 10, 1950) is an ordained minister of the Seventh-day Adventist Church who served as the President of the General Conference, the governing organization of the worldwide Seventh-day Adventist Church,[1] from 2010 until 2025. He was first elected for the period 2010-2015,[2][3] and was reelected for the period 2015-2020.[4] During the 61st General Conference Session, on June 6, 2022, he was once again elected as president for a term that extended until July 4, 2025, when he was succeeded by Erton Köhler.[5]
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He was chosen as one of the General Vice Presidents of the Adventist Church in 2000 during the General Conference Session in Toronto.[6] His 36 years of denominational service include administrative and executive roles in the Mid-Atlantic United States, Africa, and Russia. Wilson is the son of former General Conference President Neal C. Wilson, who served in the position from 1979 to 1990.[6]
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Family and Education
Wilson was born in Takoma Park, Maryland, on May 10, 1950, to Neal C. Wilson (GC president: 1979–1990) and Elinor E. Wilson. He and his wife, Nancy Louise Vollmer Wilson, have three daughters (Emile Louise, Elizabeth Esther, and Catherine Anne) and eleven grandchildren.[7]
Wilson's education includes his receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree (religion and business administration) from Columbia Union College (now Washington Adventist University); a Master of Science degree (public health) from Loma Linda University; a Master of Divinity degree from Andrews University, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree (religious education) from New York University.
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An ordained minister, Wilson began his church career in 1974 as a pastor in the Greater New York Conference and later as assistant director and director of Metropolitan Ministries there (1976–1981). He then worked in the Africa-Indian Ocean Division of the SDA Church (Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire) until 1990, serving as a departmental director and later as executive secretary.
After a two-year term as an associate secretary of the General Conference in Silver Spring, Maryland, Wilson became president of the Euro-Asia Division (Moscow, Russia), 1992–1996. After serving as president of the church's Review and Herald Publishing Association in Hagerstown, Maryland, he was elected a GC vice president in 2000.[8]
At the 59th General Conference Session (2010) in Atlanta, Georgia, Wilson was elected to replace Jan Paulsen as president of the General Conference[7][8] and was reelected at the 60th General Conference Session (July 3, 2015) in San Antonio, Texas.[9] Due to COVID-19 restrictions, the 61st General Conference Session (scheduled for 2020) was postponed until 6–11 June 2022 and held in St. Louis, Missouri, where Wilson was again reelected for another five-year term ending in 2025.[10]
During his presidency of the General Conference, Wilson was engaged in various denominational controversies over biblical, theological, political, and life-style issues, including the writings of Ellen White,[11] creation-evolution,[12] spiritual formation,[12] last generation theology,[13] the ordination of women in pastoral ministry,[14] and human sexuality.[15]
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Personal life
Wilson is married to Nancy Louise (Vollmer) Wilson, a physiotherapist, and they have three daughters.[6][16]
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