The Rev. John Robert Wright, born in Carbondale, Illinois on October 20, 1936, was ordained a deacon in his home Diocese of Indianapolis on June 11, 1963 and made a priest on June 29, 1964. With notable exceptions, his ministry in the Church has centered around scholarship and teaching in an academic tradition with specialization in Church history and ecumenism. The Wright Papers include articles and writings, sermons, correspondence, subject files, biographical papers, and other personal collections for the period of 1950- 2011. His leadership and theological contributions are strongly represented in the archive, particularly his authorship of the covenant proposal, Called to Common Mission, the crafting of full communion with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and his theological defense of the ordination of women.
