Church leader
Community leaders in many free-church communities, the official name for the senior elder of a local church . He is elected by the members of the congregation - usually on the proposal of the church leadership. As a rule, he leads the congregation meetings, performs pastoral tasks alongside, with and as a pastor and represents the congregation externally.
In the Roman Catholic diocese of Basel , fully trained theologians without ordination and who have been given the leadership of a parish are called community leaders . It was the only diocese of the Roman Catholic Church in which lay priests (with celibacy dispensations ) were also appointed as community leaders, but the then Bishop Kurt Koch decided in 2003 not to continue this practice.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Alois Schuler: What does the Holy Spirit mean by that? 40 years of lay theologians in the diocese of Basel . In: Church Today . Parish journal community of Northwestern Switzerland. November 7, 2010. Archived from the original on June 15, 2013. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
- ↑ kipa / wm / job: Bishop Koch confirms: Dispensed priests can no longer become community leaders . Diocese of Basel. April 29, 2003. Archived from the original on March 9, 2006. 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. Retrieved August 28, 2011.
