List of Former Protestants - Lutherans

Lutherans

• Louis Bouyer – Lutheran minister who converted to Catholicism in 1939.
• Ole Brunell – Lutheran pastor who converted to Orthodox Judaism.
• Christina of Sweden – Swedish queen-regent.
• John Hove, a former Lutheran pastor, he converted to Orthodox Judaism in 1988.
• Richard John Neuhaus – Lutheran pastor who converted to Catholicism.
• Jaroslav Pelikan – Lutheran historian who deemed his conversion to the Orthodox Church in America to be a "return."
• Arnold Schoenberg was an Austrian and later American composer, associated with the expressionist movement in German poetry and art, and leader of the Second Viennese School. He had converted to Lutheranism only to later embrace Judaism.
• Johann Peter Spaeth, was raised Roman Catholic, later converted to Lutheranism, and became a Lutheran theologian, he later left Christianity entirely and embraced Judaism.
• Ola Tjørhom – Norwegian theologian, converted to Catholicism .
• Sigrid Undset – Convert to Catholicism.
• Wilhelm Volk – Convert to Catholicism. (JSTOR)