Ecumenical Pentecost meeting

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Special postage stamp of the Deutsche Bundespost with the logo of the meeting

The Ecumenical Whitsun Meeting from June 3rd to 5th, 1971 in Augsburg is considered to be the first joint church convention for Protestant and Roman Catholic Christians and as a forerunner of the Ecumenical Church convention .

procedure

The Pentecost meeting took place at the invitation of the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress and the Central Committee of German Catholics under the slogan “Accept one another as Christ accepted us” ( Rom 15.7  EU ). It was under the joint presidency of the President of the Central Committee of German Catholics Albrecht Beckel and the President of the German Evangelical Church Congress Gertrud Osterloh .

A total of 8,270 permanent participants took part in the Whitsun Ecumenical Meeting. The services on the opening evening took place in 20 churches and in the town hall , they were attended by around 20,000 people.

Around 18,000 people took part in the final assembly that took place in the Rosenaustadion . In it, Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft , the honorary president of the World Council of Churches , Julius Cardinal Döpfner , the chairman of the German Bishops' Conference, and Hermann Dietzfelbinger as council chairman of the Evangelical Church in Germany preached together.

occurrence

On October 17, 1968, the German Evangelical Church Congress and the Central Committee of German Catholics decided to hold a joint event. Frankfurt am Main was initially planned as the conference location, but in 1970 Augsburg was chosen as the venue.

literature

  • Documents. Ecumenical Pentecost Meeting Augsburg 1971. Ed. By the Presidium of the German Evangelical Church Congress and by the Central Committee of German Catholics. Kreuz-Verlag, Stuttgart u. Verlag Bonifatius-Druckerei, Paderborn 1971, ISBN 3-7831-0366-5 (Kreuz-Verlag), ISBN 3-87088-067-8 (Bonifatius-Druckerei)
  • Working papers. Ecumenical Whitsun Meeting - Augsburg 1971, 3. – 5. June. On behalf of the Mixed Commission, ed. from the Central Committee of German Catholics, Bad Godesberg, and the German Evangelical Church Congress, Fulda, Central Committee of German Catholics, Bad Godesberg 1971