Biography of Father Jens Bargmann
A Lutheran Church in the
Evangelical Catholic Tradition
A Lutheran Church
in the Catholic Tradition
Father Jens was born in Lübeck, Germany,
where he grew up. In 1989 he joined the
German Air Force as a cadet. After
graduation from the German Air Force
Officer School and the University of the
German Armed Forces, where he earned a
Master's Degree in Education, he served in
the Air Force until the year 2000. He is
married to Agneta who is a nurse. They are
parents to a teenage son.

In 2000, the Bargmanns immigrated to the
Here Jens worked with the U.S. Naval
Academy, comparing the academy's
program of military ethics with that of the German Navy. In 2003, Jens
completed a doctoral program on this subject at the Catholic
University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany. During this work, Jens
realized that God called him, not to be a teacher of philosophy, but of
the Gospel. Jesus' words in John 14:6, "I am the way, and the truth,
and the life" led him into the candidacy process for the ordained
ministry of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA), and he
enrolled at the Lutheran Theological Seminary in Gettysburg, PA.
Having served as a vicar at Saint Nicholas Lutheran Church in
Huntingtown, MD from 2003 to 2004, Jens was ordained into the
ministry of Word and Sacrament in January 2005 at Saint Martin's
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Annapolis. He served at St. Martin's for
three years as the Associate Pastor. In December 2007, Father Jens
was ordained in the historic apostolic succession and became the
pastor of Christ Lutheran Church, a congregation of the
Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church (ALCC). Having served as a chaplain
in the Air National Guard, Father Jens is currently a member of the
U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, which complements his love of the water
and boating.

Father Jens has a strong passion for unity among all Christians, and
in particular for the reconciliation between Lutherans and the Roman
Catholic Church.
Christ Lutheran Church - ALCC
826 West Central Avenue, Davidsonville, MD 21035
Church Office: 237 Chatham Lane, Annapolis, MD 21403
Tel: (410) 268-1858, E-mail: info@christalcc.org
Holy Mass:
Sunday at 10:30 a.m.,
afterwards Coffee Hour
in the Church Library

Sacrament of
Reconciliation offered
daily by appointment