John Louis Nuelsen

John Louis Nuelsen ( born January 19, 1867 in Zurich, † June 26, 1946 in Cincinnati, Ohio) was an American citizen and bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church for continental Europe, the so-called European diocese of his church.

Life

John Nuelsen was born in Zurich, the son of an American Methodist preacher. He attended schools in Karlsruhe and Bremen, and then studied theology at Drew Theological Seminary in Berlin and Halle.

He worked briefly in community service and taught from 1894 at higher schools of German Methodism in the United States. By 1899 he was one of 18 teachers at Central Wesleyan College Warrenton, Montana, with 294 students. Then he became one of four theological professors founded by Nast German American School in Berea, Ohio, who visited 36 students. He was a professor of systematic theology.

In 1908 he was elected to the United States by the Methodist General Conference Bishop and managed until 1912 the Methodist parish in Nebraska. On the General Conference in Minneapolis, Minnesota, he was then entrusted with the management of the churches of the Methodist Episcopal church on the European continent. His work was financially supported by funds from the authoritative global mission agency of the Episcopal Methodist Church. His seat was Zurich.

In World War I there were serious tensions between German Methodists, and especially with the English-speaking Methodists in the United States. Nuelsen tried to compensate, but had to after the entry of the United States in 1917 to retire from work in Germany until 1919.

Nuelsen strove for an understanding between the churches in neutral and belligerent states. The small Christian communities were important to him. Prior to the Stockholm World Conference 1924 Nuelsen expressed: ". The need of the hour is the unreserved recognition of the existence of the smaller churches the term ' church ' can not be the same as ' country church '. "

In 1940 he retired and lived from then until his death in 1946 in America.

Honors

John Nuelsen was Honorary Chairman of the Association of Deaconess Associations of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Germany and Switzerland.

Writings

• JL Nuelsen: Methodism in America, in: Realencyclopädie for Protestant theology and church third improved and enlarged edition, herausg. Albert Hauck, Thirteenth volume, page 1-25, Leipzig 1903
• John L. Nuelsen, Theophil man, JJ Summer: brief history of Methodism from its beginning to the present, 2nd revised and expanded edition, Bremen 1929