Jon D. Vieker

Jon D. Vieker is associate professor of practical theology and dean of chapel at Concordia Seminary, St. Louis. He has been a faculty member since 2021. Vieker earned a doctor of philosophy (PhD), master of sacred theology (STM), and master of divinity (MDiv) from Concordia Seminary. He received a bachelor of arts (BA) in music from California Lutheran University, Thousand Oaks, California. From 1998 to 2010, he served as assistant director for the LCMS Commission on Worship, and was involved with all aspects of research, development, editing, and production of Lutheran Service Book and its core companion volumes. Vieker served as a co-editor of the two-volume Lutheran Service Book: Companion to the Hymns (2019) and was lead editor in a translation of Friedrich Lochner’s The Chief Service of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church (2020). He served as lead editor for festschrift volumes in honor of Norman Nagel (1990, 2015) and Ronald Feuerhahn (2002). An accomplished musician, Vieker is also a composer, with choral settings and organ preludes published by Concordia Publishing House and Liturgy Solutions.