Jochen Bohl

Jochen Bohl ( born April 19, 1950 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran theologian and since 2004 Bishop of the Evangelical - Lutheran Church of Saxony. Bohl since October 2009 Member of the Council of the EKD, he was elected Deputy EKD Council ends on November 9, 2010.

Life and work

After studying theology at the Evangelical Church University of Wuppertal and the Universities of Marburg and Bochum 1968-1974 Bohl passed his examinations at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Bielefeld. From 1974 to 1976 he graduated from the Vicariate in Brüninghausen at Lüdenscheid and was ordained in 1977. From 1978 to 1986 he worked as a parish priest in Aplerbeck in the church district Dortmund -Süd, before he left as head of the Evangelical Youth Office of the Saarland in Saarbrücken. There he was in 1993 also Deputy Country Representative of the Saarland countryside.

1995 Bohl was employing Oberkirchenrat and director of the 16,000 employees and 1,400 facilities comprehensive Social Service Agency of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, based in the Upper Mountain Road 1 in Radebeul. After his election as presiding minister of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony he was sent to the Dresden Cross Church on 26 June 2004 by the Presiding Bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany Hans Christian Knuth in his office as bishop and served as such even in the consecration of the rebuilt Frauenkirche in Dresden on 30 October 2005. During the Synod of the EKD in Ulm 2009 he was elected to the Council of the EKD. Bohl is also a board member of the Evangelical Association ProChrist, an organizer of the YMCA related crusade events, and the International Foundation Martin Luther.

A particular concern is Bohls since the 1980s, the work of reconciliation with Israel and Poland. Even ten years before the turnaround in Germany also he used regular contacts with parishes in the German Democratic Republic. After the peaceful revolution of 1989 he saw the interesting part of Germany in the east, because "it here to make a difference " was.

Bohl is married. He has three sons and lives in Radebeul.

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