Union Evangelischer Kirchen

The Union of Evangelical Churches ( ICE), actually Union of Evangelical Churches in the Evangelical Church in Germany, is an association of 12 Protestant churches.

Member churches

  • Evangelical Church of Anhalt
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden
  • Evangelical Church of Berlin -Brandenburg -Silesian Upper Lusatia, January 1, 2004 resulted from: Evangelical Church in Berlin -Brandenburg
  • Evangelical Church of Silesian Upper Lusatia
  • Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia

Thus belong to the ICE primarily Uniate or Reformed churches of the Evangelical Churches in Germany (EKD ).

Guest status have the following churches:

History

The ICE was established on 1 July 2003. It replaced the former Evangelical Church of the Union ( EKU ) and the Arnoldshain Conference. The EKU had the country's churches, which had emerged from the ecclesiastical provinces of the former Prussian State Church (" Old Prussian Union " ) belongs; to Arnoldshain Conference in 1967 several Uniate and Reformed churches had come together.

According to Article 1, paragraph 1, of its basic order, the TOB is a public corporation ( KdöR ) because it continues the legal status of the EKU as KdöR. Its headquarters was initially Berlin in the previous Church Office of EKU. Meanwhile, the Office of the Union of Evangelical Churches is affiliated to the administrative simplification of the EKD Church Office in Hanover.

The Pomeranian Evangelical Church is due to its merger with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany since Pentecost 2012 is no longer a member of the Union of Evangelical Churches. The Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Germany as the successor but has guest status in the ICE.

Organs

The organs of the ICE are the full conference, which is composed of 44 members of the 13 member churches. It is virtually the "parliament" of the Union. The General Conference shall be elected for six years by the member churches. The General Conference shall elect from among its members an Executive Committee, in which all member churches are represented. In addition, consists of the chairmen of the Theological Committee and the Legal Committee and the Head of the Church Chancellery in Berlin the Bureau so that there is a total of 17 members.

The Bureau with the Chairman at the top is the executive board of the full conference. For first chairman of the ICE was on November 8, 2013 Dusseldorf President of the Church of the Palatinate state church, Christian Schad, selected.

The management of the ICE was done by the end of 2006 in the Church of the ICE office in Berlin. Head of the Church Office from 2003 to 2006, Dr. Wilhelm Hüffmeier, who had been from 1995 to 2003 Head of the Church Office of the Evangelical Church of the Union.

After his retirement, the activity of the Church Chancellery in Berlin has ended. The shops of the TOB have since been provided by the Office of the ICE in the EKD Church Office in Hanover. Since 2006, the Vice- President of the Church Office of the EKD, Bishop Martin Schindehütte abroad, head of the Office of the ICE.

This ended the nearly 190 - year history of the former Prussian State Church, whose line since 1912 had their place in the building in Jebensstraße in Berlin- Charlottenburg. In this house in 2007 entered a Protestant German Army chaplaincy.

With the Administrative Court of the Union of Evangelical Churches and the Disciplinary the TOB, the TOB has built revision or appellate courts against decisions of the courts of first instance its member churches and the ICE itself.

Tasks

The basic rules defines the following tasks for the Union of Evangelical Churches (Article 3, paragraph 1):

For some task fields common arrangements are in place; according to basic order Article 6, paragraph 4, these are:

In the Acts of the traditions of the member churches are taken into account. Therefore, the implementation of the common tasks in the different national churches sometimes appears quite different.

Facilities

  • Evangelical Research Academy
  • Evangelical Central Archives ( in sponsorship of the EKD and ICE)
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