Evangelical Reformed Church of the Grisons

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Evangelical Reformed Church of the Grisons
Logo of the reformed regional church of Graubünden
Logo of the reformed regional church of Graubünden
General
Belief evangelical reformed
distribution Grisons
founding
Establishment date 1537
numbers
Members approx. 70,000
Communities 114
Others
Website www.gr-ref.ch

The Evangelical Reformed Church of Graubünden is the Reformed Church in the Swiss canton of Graubünden and belongs to the Evangelical Reformed Church of Switzerland . It includes all citizens of the canton of Reformed , Evangelical or Protestant denominations who belong to it from birth or baptism or who joined it later and have not declared their departure.

history

Church of St. Cassian in Sils im Domleschg , reformed since 1525/30

The origins of the regional church go back to the Reformation . The ideas of Martin Luther and Huldrych Zwingli found their way to the Bündnerland and gained followers there. The individual communities in Graubünden have been able to determine their confession since the Ilanz Religious Discussion in 1526 and the Ilanz articles written under the leadership of Johannes Comander , so that the confession could vary from community to community. Depending on which denomination the majority of citizens opted for, the house of God changed hands, i.e. it came into Reformed hands or remained Roman Catholic.

The first forerunners of a Graubünden regional church date back to 1537, the year the Graubünden Synod was founded . This assembly of the Bündner parish exists to this day and has the task of examining candidates who want to take on a pastor's office.

In the 18th century, the Bündnerkirche was shaken by two disputes, the Bündner predicant strike of 1790 and the Bündner Herrnhuterstreit .

organization

The Reformed Bündnerkirche as the only trilingual Protestant national church in Switzerland
Administration building of the regional church in Chur

Structure and structure

Currently (as of 2013) it has around 70,000 members in around 90 Graubünden parishes . The administrative headquarters of the regional church is located at Loestrasse 60 in Chur .

The largest Swiss cantonal church in terms of area is divided into ten regional colloquia , which are the consultation bodies for church legislation.

The highest organ of the regional church is the Evangelical Grand Council, to which the members of the colloquia belong as well as the reformed politicians of the (political) Grand Council who have agreed to cooperate.

The governing body (executive) of the regional church is the seven-member church council and is currently chaired by Andreas Thöny , who took over the office from Lini Sutter-Ambühl .

Synod

The Synod , which takes place annually around the last weekend in June at different locations in the canton and has existed since 1537, is a unique event in Graubünden . This does not - as is usual in Protestantism - “lay people”, but includes all clergy who live in the canton, both the office holders in the communities and the retired. It is the responsibility of the Synod to examine new clergy elected by the congregations and to decide whether they can be elected. The synod is headed by a three-person dean's office (dean and two vice-deans). From 2006 to 2014 Thomas Gottschall from Trimmis was Dean. At the 2014 Synod, Cornelia Camichel Bromeis from Davos was elected as his successor. She took office in 2015.

Restructuring and constitutional revision

On January 1, 2008, a major restructuring came into force in the Graubünden Church, which was essentially aimed at strengthening regional cooperation between smaller communities in order to pool resources. As a result, numerous new pastoral communities , congregational mergers and supra- congregational associations such as B. Il Binsaun in the Upper Engadine .

In 2011, a consultation began with a view to a comprehensive constitutional revision, which is to replace the old constitution of 1978 drawn up under Dean Martin Accola .

Customs and Traditions

Official costume

The traditional official clothing of the Graubünden parish is the scaletta coat .

Hymn books

The following are in use as hymn books in the individual parishes:

Bibles

The Engadine Romance Soncha Scrittüra

Bibles are used as follows:

  • the Zurich Bible , partly also the Luther Bible , in German and bilingual congregations,
  • the Soncha Scrittüra in the Engadin and in the Münstertal,
  • the Surselvian Bible translation in the Oberland and
  • the Italian-language Protestant Bible translation in the southern valleys

Church music

The care of church music and the training of specialists is the responsibility of the cantonal church association Vogra .

Associations

The Evangelical Association Gruob and the surrounding area is active in the Surselva .

media

Reformed.

The monthly publication organ is the magazine reformed. which in 2008 replaced the former “Bündner Kirchenbote”. The Engadin supplement Nossa baselgia is responsible for its own editorial team .

Pastoral library

The regional church maintains its own pastoral library. This has been housed in the premises of the Cantonal Library of Graubünden since 1910 and is looked after by Pastor Daniel Bolliger (Waltensburg-Schnaus).

Church media library

At the Obertor in Chur, the Reformed Bündnerkirche is involved in the ecclesiastical media library , which is operated by the Catholic regional church of Graubünden .

Wikipedia

Pastor David Last, Sagogn / Laax / Falera

The Graubünden regional church was the first in Switzerland to document all of its almost 200 church buildings in the Wikipedia Internet encyclopedia , which led to a great deal of media coverage. For the majority of posts in German and the Romansh idioms Vallader and turkeys who drew Sagogner , formerly Pontresina Pastor David load (* 1969) is responsible. Adrian Michael from Zollikon also contributed articles and photographs.

literature

  • Evangelical Church Council Graubünden (edited on behalf of the Evangelical Reformed Synod of the Canton of Graubünden): Bündner Kirchengeschichte. Bischofberger, Chur.
    • Part 1: From Rhaetian Paganism to the Reformation. 1982.
    • Part 2: The Reformation. 1986.
    • Part 3: The Counter Reformation. 1986, ISBN 3-905174-01-4 .
    • Part 4: The Last Three Centuries. Preservation and Transformation. 1987, ISBN 3-905174-02-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Official Report 2011. Key figures. Authorities, commissions and agents. As of December 31, 2011. (No longer available online.) Evangelical Church Council Graubünden, Kurt Bosshard, Church Council Actuary, April 2012, formerly in the original ; Retrieved October 18, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.gr-ref.ch  
  2. ↑ Graubünden church history. Part 2. P. 51.
  3. ↑ Graubünden church history. Part 2. P. 73.
  4. ↑ [1]
  5. ↑ «A historical moment» on www.gr-ref.ch ( Memento of the original from July 1, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.gr-ref.ch
  6. ↑ http://www.verfassungsrevision.ch/
  7. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gr-ref.ch
  8. ↑ http://www.gr.kath.ch/index.php?idcat=6
  9. ↑ http://www.ref.ch/index.php?id=426
  10. ↑ «Like an act against one's own vanity», article on reformiert.info of February 24, 2010 ( Memento of January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  11. ^ The online mission of the Bündner Pfarrer , article on reformiert.info, from March 25, 2011 ( Memento from January 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  12. ↑ Ten years of Wikipedia - these Swiss have committed themselves to the encyclopedia, in: SonntagsZeitung of January 16, 2011, p. 74
  13. ↑ Das Schanfigg in Wikipedia, in: Aroser Zeitung of September 10, 2010, p. 15
  14. ↑ Barbara Schellenberg: The fight with one's own ego , in: Engadiner Wochenzeitung from October 6, 2010, p. 21
  15. ↑ Julian Reich: The Pastor's Contribution to World Knowledge , in: Bündner Tagblatt of December 28, 2015, p. 15

Coordinates: 46 ° 51 '25.9 "  N , 9 ° 32' 15.6"  E ; CH1903:  760 051  /  191704