Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania (in Hungarian : Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház , in Romanian : Biserica Evanghelică Luterană din România ) emerged from the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania , the so-called Church of the Transylvanian Saxons , was named in 1921 as “ Synodal Presbyterial Evangelical Lutheran Church ”and until 2001 was called the“ Evangelical Synodal Presbyterian Church AB in Romania ”. The background to this separation was, among other things, national tensions between the church leadership A.B. and the pastors of the Protestant Hungarian-speaking congregations around Kronstadt . There - z. B. in Săcele and Krebsbach - many so-called Burzenland Csangos of Protestant faith still settle today . The fact that their pastors were only granted the rank of vicars was the official reason for the formation of an independent deanery in 1881.
During the period of National Socialism , which in Romania in the German and Protestant AB area meant the rule of the German ethnic group over the traditional Saxon church hierarchy, further communities were resolved , including the Oltszakadát parish near Sibiu and the Slovak- speaking communities around Nădlac ( near Arad ). After the end of the war, the leadership of the Evangelical Church AB and the Evangelical Lutheran Church made agreements on the procedure with German-speaking parishioners, which existed in Klausenburg and Neumarkt am Mieresch , among others .
Several of the well-known fortified churches in Transylvania also fall under the jurisdiction of the Evangelical Lutheran Church , e. B. those in Kleinkopisch ( parish with approx. 600 members) or Halmagen (approx. 300 members).
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hungarian is the official language , but there is a Slovak church district for the Slovak-speaking parishes. The bishopric is Cluj-Napoca . According to the Lutheran World Federation , the church had 30,720 members in 2010 . Today, apart from Hungarian and Slovak congregations, there are still Romanian and German-speaking members in individual places and the only Romanian -speaking Lutheran congregation in the world in Bucharest with around 70 members, which can be traced back to Richard Wurmbrand , a Jewish Christian .
Bishops
1927–1940 Lajos Frint
1941–1974 György Argay
1975–1991 Pál Szedressy
1992–2004 Árpád Mózes
2004– Dezső Zoltán Adorjáni
Partner church
The partner church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Romania is the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Mecklenburg .
See also
Web links
Website of the Ev.-Luth. Church of Romania
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- ^ Lutheran World Federation: 2010 World Lutheran Membership Details; Lutheran World Information 1/2011. ( Memento from September 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF; 199 kB) p. 10.