Gordon W. Lathrop is Professor of Liturgy, Emeritus at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Previously, he taught at Wartburg Theological Seminary, Dubuque, Iowa; was campus pastor at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington; and served as parish pastor in Darlington, Wisconsin.
In 2006-2007 he was Visiting Professor of Liturgical Studies at Yale Divinity School.
He has lectured widely, been a visiting professor at the University of Uppsala in Sweden, and, in the 1990s, was a participant in Faith and Order consultations on worship and Christian unity and Lutheran World Federation consultations on worship and culture.