09.03.2007
VELKD Official Appointed Vice President of EKD Church Office
As part of last year's agreement by Germany's Protestant churches to strengthen cooperation between them, the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) has appointed the president of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) Church Office, Rev. Dr Friedrich Hauschildt, as vice president of the EKD Church Office. Effective 1 January 2007, Hauschildt heads Section III - Public Responsibility and Education - of the EKD Church Office, and continues as head of the VELKD Church Office, a position he has held since November 2001.The VELKD Church Office, until now in Hanover, and the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK) Church Office, previously located in Berlin, Germany, will both move together to join the EKD Church Office in Hanover, Germany.
Born in 1950, Hauschildt studied in Kiel and Göttingen, Germany, and holds a doctorate in theology. He served as a parish pastor in the North Elbian church for nine years. From 1985 to 1991 he was Oberkirchenrat in the VELKD Lutheran Church Office, after which he served as director of the pastoral seminary in Celle, until 1998, and as Oberlandeskirchenrat in the church office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover.
The VELKD is an association of eight Evangelical churches in Bavaria, Brunswick, Hanover, Mecklenburg, North Elbia, Saxony, Schaumburg-Lippe and Thuringia, which represent some 9.75 million church members. (229 words)
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