Jochen Bohl

Jochen Bohl as regional bishop

Jochen Bohl (2011)

Jochen Bohl (born April 19, 1950 in Lüdenscheid ) is a German Protestant - Lutheran theologian and was regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony from 2004 to 2015 . Bohl has been a member of the EKD Council since October 2009 , and on November 9, 2010 he was elected Deputy EKD Council Chairman. A few months after his 65th birthday, Bohl retired on August 29, 2015, and Carsten Rentzing , who was elected as his successor on May 31, 2015, was introduced as regional bishop.

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After studying Protestant theology at the Wuppertal Church University and at the Universities of Marburg and Bochum from 1968 to 1974, Bohl passed his exams at the Evangelical Church of Westphalia in Bielefeld . From 1974 to 1976 he completed the vicariate in Brüninghausen near Lüdenscheid and was ordained in 1977 . From 1978 to 1986 he worked as a parish pastor in Aplerbeck in the Dortmund-Süd church district before moving to Saarbrücken as head of the Evangelical Youth Service on the Saar . There he was also deputy state spokesman for the Saarland Greens in 1993 .

In 1995 Bohl became senior church councilor and director of the Diaconal Work of the Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Saxony (EVLKS), based in Radebeul, with 16,000 employees and 1,400 institutions .

In 2004 he ran for election as regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Saxony against Johannes Berthold (then rector of the Evangelical University of Moritzburg ) and the regional church councilor Peter Meis. In the fourth ballot he was able to unite 43 of the 85 votes.

Bohl was appointed regional bishop in the Dresden Kreuzkirche on June 26, 2004 by the leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany, Hans-Christian Knuth , and he also officiated as such at the rededication of the rebuilt Dresden Frauenkirche on October 30, 2005. At the EKD Synod in Ulm in 2009 he was elected to the EKD Council. Bohl is also a member of the board of trustees of the evangelical association ProChrist , an organizer of major evangelization events close to the YMCA , and was a member of the board of trustees of the International Martin Luther Foundation until his retirement in 2015 .

A special concern of Bohl's since the 1980s has been the reconciliation work with Israel and Poland . Ten years before the fall of the Wall in Germany, he also maintained regular contacts with parishes in the German Democratic Republic . After the peaceful revolution of 1989 he saw the interesting part of Germany in the east because "there was something to be done here".

Bohl is married. He has three sons and lives in Radebeul.

Varia

Former Bishop Bohl on May 3, 2019 for the reopening of the Philippuskirche Leipzig

On May 3, 2019, the service for the solemn reopening of the Philippuskirche Leipzig took place under the direction of Former Bishop Jochen Bohl. The church was renovated and the former rectory became an integration hotel . This project, which is unique in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony and under the responsibility of the Leipzig vocational training center, was approved in 2010 by a committee headed by Jochen Bohl.

literature

Strengthening oneself - seizing the opportunity (Festschrift for Regional Bishop Jochen Bohl on his 60th birthday on April 19, 2010). Ev.-Luth. State Church Office of Saxony, Dresden 2010.

Web links

Commons : Jochen Bohl - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Jochen Bohl in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature by and about Jochen Bohl in the Saxon Bibliography
Private website about Jochen Bohl from a former fellow student

Individual evidence

↑ Council election. Election results. In: ekd.de, accessed on June 4, 2019.
↑ Regional Bishop Bohl deputy EKD council chairman. (No longer available online.) In: kirche-sachsen.de. November 9, 2010, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .
^ Special synod elects new bishop for the regional church of Saxony. (No longer available online.) In: t-online.de. April 15, 2015, archived from the original on April 16, 2015 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 (source: dpa).
↑ Carsten Rentzing is the future regional bishop. Elected in the sixth ballot! (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. June 1, 2015, archived from the original on August 26, 2015 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .
↑ Olaf Opitz: Politics: Item Collection. Katrin Göring-Eckardt holds the second highest church office of the Protestants and wants to become top Greens. Is that possible? In: Focus . 37/2012, September 10, 2012.
↑ Election of the regional bishop on March 27, 2004. Course of the election / The election act. (No longer available online.) In: evlks.de. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, archived from the original on December 16, 2007 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Bohl, Jochen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH	April 19, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH	Ludenscheid

[1] Council election. Election results. In: ekd.de, accessed on June 4, 2019.

[2] Regional Bishop Bohl deputy EKD council chairman. (No longer available online.) In: kirche-sachsen.de. November 9, 2010, archived from the original on October 6, 2014 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .

[3] Special synod elects new bishop for the regional church of Saxony. (No longer available online.) In: t-online.de. April 15, 2015, archived from the original on April 16, 2015 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 (source: dpa).

[4] Carsten Rentzing is the future regional bishop. Elected in the sixth ballot! (No longer available online.) In: mdr.de. June 1, 2015, archived from the original on August 26, 2015 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .

[5] Olaf Opitz: Politics: Item Collection. Katrin Göring-Eckardt holds the second highest church office of the Protestants and wants to become top Greens. Is that possible? In: Focus . 37/2012, September 10, 2012.

[6] Election of the regional bishop on March 27, 2004. Course of the election / The election act. (No longer available online.) In: evlks.de. Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony, archived from the original on December 16, 2007 ; accessed on June 4, 2019 .