What would St. Finian have thought, he who is known as the "Teacher of the Irish Saints?" In the handsome Dublin church named for the great 6th century monk, a new pastor was preaching last week, and in his accents there was precious little of the Liffey. For a fact, the Rev. Hans Dietrich Mittorp was German, and a Lutheran at that—the first Lutheran pastor with a parish in Ireland for more than two centuries.
Since a community of Danes flourished there in the 18th century. Ireland has not had enough Lutherans to support a church. But since World War II, German...
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