Hochkirchliche St.-Johannes-Bruderschaft

The High Church of St. John Brotherhood ( SJB ) is part of the High Church movement.

History

The Brotherhood 1929 went forth from the high ecclesiastical union of the Augsburg Confession and first bore the name Evangelical Catholic Eucharistic Community ( EKEG ). Under the first chairman of the High Church Association, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Heiler the originally shaped by Lutheran confessionalism Community opened after 1927 the Evangelical Catholicity. The term of the Evangelical Catholicity of the Swedish Archbishop Nathan Soderblom was the theological vision. With great intensity all ecumenical impulses of the 20s were taken ( Lausanne Conference of Churches 1927 Faith and Order, Franciscan piety (Paul Sabatier ) ) from the beginning. They tried to overcome the regional church provincialism by numerous personal contacts have been closed to prominent church representatives abroad ( Una Sancta ecumenical work, Max Josef Metzger's compound, for example, the founder of the Swedish High Church movement P. Gunnar Rosendal ).

1930, the community asked her head, Prof. Dr. Friedrich Heiler to can be transferred by Bishop Gaston Vigue of the Gallican church from the south of France and Bishop Gustav Adolf Glinz the authority of the Office of the Superintendent of the Apostolic Brotherhood ( the Bishop); arranged so that the community in a global Apostolic Succession, whose consecration line back to the Syrian Orthodox Patriarchate of Antioch. With this step, the community wanted to confess to the continuity of the Church at all times and everywhere. The ecumenical contacts led under the Nazi regime, first to remove Friedrich healer from his professorship in Munich (1934 ), prohibiting the Journals ( 1937) and finally to ban the Brotherhood ( 1938). Throughout the Second World War further regular meetings ( so-called high church days) were held in secret. 1947, the community was re- established as a Protestant ecumenical St. John's Brotherhood and 1975 again renamed High Church St. John's Brotherhood.

1948 to 1990 it existed in the space of the GDR under the name John Brotherhood continued under the protection of the Protestant churches in the GDR. 1990 to 1993 it came to the reunion with the part of the Brotherhood in the West ( BRD and Rep. Austria ). 1947-1999 accompanied the Brotherhood by essays and articles of single limbs both Ecumenical initiatives (1983: Augustana Jubilee, 1999: Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification [ GER] ) as well as liturgical developments (2000: Protestant Worship Book [ ESD ] ).

For high Church St. John's Brotherhood today has about one hundred members ( 35 % women, 65 % men) in Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and the Czech Republic. The majority are members of Protestant state churches. Others are members of the Roman Catholic Church, the Old Catholic Church or any other denomination.

The inclusion in the brotherhood is preceded by a minimum two-year novitiate. Konrad Innocent Schrieder, Hamm, is currently head of the Apostolic in episcopal apostolic succession. Public presence is the Brotherhood Church Conferences ( German Protestant Church, German Catholic, Ecumenical Church ) and at ecumenical events such as the St. Ansgar Vesper in Hamburg; she is a member of the meeting clergyman Communities ( TGG ) and is included in the list of the clergy communities of the EKD.

Effective history

Various impetus for creation of orders and brotherhoods were always of the SJB ( also from the affiliated high ecclesiastical union ) from:

Related Communities are:

  • Apostolate of St. Ansgar
  • St. Athanasius Brotherhood
  • Federation of Evangelical - Catholic unity
  • St. James Brotherhood
  • Community Church of renovation work in Bavaria ( LFS)
  • Michael Evangelical Brotherhood
  • Brotherhood of the Common Life
  • Swiss Diakonieverein, Brothers of the Common Life
  • Evangelical Sisters of Mary, Darmstadt

Objectives

  • Eucharistic piety:
  • Private confession:
  • Confirmation:
  • Apostolic Succession:
  • Three times ( seven times ) Ecclesiastical Office:
  • Spirituality:
  • Ecumenical unity:
  • Evangelical Catholicity:

Outward signs

  • Brotherhood name
  • Elisabeth silver cross from Andechs Monastery ( since 1983)
  • White hooded robe (since 2002)
Hochkirchliche Vereinigung Augsburgischen Bekenntnisses Katholikentag Hochkirchlicher Apostolat St. Ansgar St.-Jakobus-Bruderschaft Berneuchen Movement
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