06.06.2006
German Protestant Kirchentag Has New General Secretary
Effective 1 July 2006, Dr Ellen Ueberschär will be the new general secretary of the German Protestant Kirchentag (church convention) in Fulda, Germany. The Kirchentag's board appointed the 38-year-old theologian in late March. She will succeed Superintendent Friederike von Kirchbach, who has been general secretary since 2000.Ueberschär is currently director of studies in theology, ethics and law at the Evangelical Academy of Loccum in Germany. She studied theology in Berlin and Heidelberg from 1988 until 1995, and was a research assistant specialising in theology at the University of Marburg. She was awarded the Philipps Prize for her dissertation at the University of Marburg in 2002. Her practical church training included work on contemporary history and politics at the Protestant Academy in Berlin. She has been a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church in Germany.
The 31st German Protestant Kirchentag will be held from 6 to 10 June 2007 in Cologne, Germany. (161 words)
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