Evangelical Church in the Rhineland

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The Protestant Church in the Rhineland (

United Protestant church body in parts of the German states of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland and Hesse (Wetzlar). This is actually the area covered by the former Prussian Rhine Province
until 1920.

Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
Evangelical Church in the Rhineland

The seat of the church is in

Community of Protestant Churches in Europe and also the Reformed Alliance.[2] The church runs a conference venue called Evangelische Akademie. It is a member of the Conference of Churches on the Rhine
.

Some theological statements

The theological teaching goes back on Martin Luther. The

presbytery).[3]

History

The Protestant Church in the Rhineland emerged on 12 November 1948, when the Ecclesiastical Province of the Rhineland within the

Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union
gained independence as its own church body. The Protestants in Hohenzollern merged in 1950 with the
Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Württemberg, whilst retaining the previous old-Prussian order of service.[4]

Legislative assembly and leaders

The legislative assembly of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland is the regional synod (Landessynode). The election of the synod is for four years. Since 1975 the synod meets annually in January in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler (before 1975 in Bad Godesberg). Its elected leader (praeses) is also leader of the church.

Praesides

The legislative body, then called the provincial synod (Provinzialsynode), was already established when the Rhenish church still formed an ecclesiastical province of the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union. The then praesides were only speakers of the synod but not the leaders of the ecclesiastical province. Instead this function was with the

general superintendents
. Since the ecclesiastical province assumed its independence each praeses is speaker of the synod and leader of the church.

  • 1835–1846: Franz Friedrich Gräber
  • 1847–1851: Georg August Ludwig Schmidtborn
  • 1853–1860: Johann Heinrich Wiesmann
  • 1862–1864: Johann Karl Friedrich Maaß
  • 1865–1877: Friedrich Nieden
  • 1877–1888: Stephan Friedrich Evertsbusch
  • 1890–1893: Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand Kirschstein
  • 1893–1898: Valentin Umbeck
  • 1899–1905: Friedrich Wilhelm Schürmann
  • 1908–1912: Albert Hackenberg
  • 1914–1917: Georg Hafner
  • 1919–1932: Friedrich Walter Paul Wolff
  • 1932–1934: Friedrich Schäfer
  • 1934–1935: Paul Humburg
  • 1935–1948: Friedrich Horn, praeses of the provincial synod
  • 1948–1957: Heinrich Karl Ewald Held, praeses of the regional synod and leader of the church
  • 1958–1971: Joachim Wilhelm Beckmann
  • 1971–1981: Karl Immer
  • 1981–1989: Gerhard Brandt
  • 1989–1996: Peter Beier
  • 1996–1997: vacancy
    • Hans Ulrich Stephan, superior church counsellor and praeses per pro
  • 1997–2003: Manfred Kock
  • 2003–2013: Nikolaus Schneider
  • 2013–2021: Manfred Rekowski
  • 2013–present: Thorsten Latzel

Books

  • Evangelisches Gesang-Buch
  • Evangelisches Gesangbuch für Rheinland und Westfalen, Dortmund, 1883
  • Evangelisches Gesangbuch für Rheinland und Westfalen, Dortmund, 1929
  • Evangelisches Kirchengesangbuch, Edition for Churches in Rhineland, Westphalia and Lippe, Bielefeld, 1969

References

  1. ^ Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2020 Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine EKD, November 2021.
  2. ^ Reformiert-info.de Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Landessynode 2016 – Trauung auch für Eingetragene Lebenspartnerschaften Archived 2017-11-15 at the Wayback Machine. (in German) Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, 15 January 2016.
  4. ^ Antonia Lezerkoss: Kirche: Liturgie nach alter Preußenweise. Archived 2020-10-31 at the Wayback Machine Südwest Presse Online, 3 February 2017, retrieved 18 February 2018.
    Dagmar Stuhrmann: Kirche: Ausstellung "Evanglisch in Hohenzollern" macht Halt in Ebingen. Archived 2018-06-19 at the Wayback Machine Südwest Presse Online, 26 January 2017, retrieved 18 February 2018.
    Hechingen: Ein Abschied voller Wehmut. Archived 2018-02-18 at the Wayback Machine Schwarzwälder Bote, 13 February 2013, retrieved 18 February 2018.

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