Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
The Protestant Church in the Rhineland (
The seat of the church is in
Some theological statements
The theological teaching goes back on Martin Luther. The
History
The Protestant Church in the Rhineland emerged on 12 November 1948, when the Ecclesiastical Province of the Rhineland within the
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
- 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
- ^ Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland – Kirchemitgliederzahlen Stand 31. Dezember 2020 Archived 2021-12-21 at the Wayback Machine EKD, November 2021.
- ^ Reformiert-info.de Archived April 13, 2014, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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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