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Mark S. Hanson, presiding bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, has announced that he will be available as a nominee next year for a second six-year term as presiding bishop. The ELCA’s 2007 biennial Churchwide Assembly will meet August 6-12 at Navy Pier in Chicago, the denomination’s headquarters city. Hanson, 59, also serves as president of the Geneva-based Lutheran World Federation in a six-year term that ends in 2009. Lowell G.