04.07.2006
Tamás Fabiny Becomes Bishop of the Northern District of Hungary's Lutheran Church
Rev. Dr Tamás Fabiny, a professor for New Testament theology at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological University in Budapest, is the new bishop of the Northern District of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary. He was installed at Miskolc, Hungary, on 25 March, succeeding Imre Szebik, who retired on 1 March.Fabiny, 46, was a student at Budapest's Evangelical Lutheran Theological Academy from 1977 to 1982, and ordained as a pastor in 1982. While assistant pastor in Siófok, Hungary, from 1982 to 1986, he also studied abroad, in Germany from 1984 to 1985, and in the United States of America from 1985 to 1986. Following his second theological examination in 1987, he worked as a parish pastor in Budapest-Kőbánya from 1987 to 1999.
Fabiny received his doctorate from the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany, for his dissertation on "Dramaturgy and Communications in Jesus' Parables." He was appointed lecturer at Budapest's Evangelical Lutheran Theological University in 1999, and following his "Habilitation" (post-doctoral degree) from the Reformed Theological University of Debrecen, Hungary, he was again named professor for New Testament theology at the Evangelical Lutheran Theological University in Budapest.
Since 1996, Fabiny has been active as a producer of religious programming for Hungary's Duna Televízió television network, producing some 100 reports and documentaries on topics including church and society, Christians and Jews, the Bible, and congregational life. He has also chaired the media committee of Hungary's Lutheran church since 1997.
Bishop Fabiny is married with three children.
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary, with some 305,000 members, has been an LWF member church since 1947. (275 words)
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