The Rev. Craig A. Miller began his six-year term as the fourth bishop of the Upper Susquehanna Synod on September 1, 2022. Bishop Miller served as Assistant to the Bishop and Director for Evangelical Mission in the synod since 2016. From 1996 to 2016, he served as pastor of Our Saviour’s Lutheran Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. Bishop Miller was born in Reading, but his family moved to Brooklyn when he was 6 years old. While not a native of this area, he has family ties here: his mother grew up in Northumberland and he has cousins in Selinsgrove and Danville.
Bishop Miller earned his Bachelor of Science in Forestry from the State University of New York College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse, N.Y., in 1985 and his Master of Divinity degree from the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia (now United Lutheran Seminary) in 1996. His wife, Nancy, received her Masters in Social Work from Fordham University and works as a counselor and therapist. Their daughter, CarolAnn, earned her Masters in Music Therapy at the University of Limerick in 2023.