22.12.2006
Milos Klátik New Lutheran Bishop in Slovak Republic
Rev. Dr Milos Klátik, 43, is the new General Bishop of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in the Slovak Republic (ECAC-SR). He was installed as general bishop in his own congregation in Bratislava-Petrzalka on 28 October.Klátik succeeded Dr Július Filo as general bishop, who received his farewell at a celebration the previous evening in the auditorium of the University of Bratislava's Faculty of Protestant Theology. Filo was vice president of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) for its Central and Eastern European region from 1997 to 2003, but was no longer eligible to run for the post after his second term in office.
Klátik studied theology in Bratislava, in the German cities of Erlangen, Berlin, Tübingen, and Heidelberg, and in Birmingham and London, England. He worked as a vicar (intern pastor) in the congregations in Ruzomberok and Petrzalka, where he focused strongly on parish growth and organized a new church center. Klátik received his doctorate in systematic theology for his dissertation on the priesthood of all believers. He now teaches systematic theology at the Faculty of Protestant Theology of the University of Bratislava.
Milos Klátik is married with four children.
The ECAC-SR has some 373,000 members and has been a member of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) since 1947. (221 words)
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