Church council

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A church council is a member of the church leadership in various Protestant churches in Germany . In Switzerland , the church council is the name for both the church leadership and its members. The term “Council of Churches” was and is also used as an honorary title.

Germany

The Evangelical Church in Württemberg , the Evangelical Church in Baden and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg call their church leadership Oberkirchenrat (regional church administration). In other Protestant churches, church councils serve on a voluntary basis in the administration of the local congregation. This honorary position is open to both women and men. The designation has been preserved in Evangelical Reformed churches and the Mennonite church .

In the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church , a distinction is made between a lay council of churches and the executive council of churches. In contrast to the lay church council, the executive church council of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church is a pastor. He exercises his office full-time. The seat of the executive church council is Hanover .

Switzerland

In many Evangelical Reformed regional churches in Switzerland ( Aargau , both Appenzell , Basel-Land , Basel-Stadt , Glarus , Graubünden , Nidwalden , St. Gallen , Schaffhausen , Schwyz , Thurgau , Zug and Zurich ) the church council designates the leadership of the regional church, both the body as a whole and its individual members. In the other Swiss regional churches, this is called the Synodal Council .

In some Protestant regional churches in Switzerland, church council is the name for the leadership of a parish. In the aforementioned Swiss regional churches, this is called church maintenance .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949: Organs - Offices - Associations - People , edited by Heinz Boberach, Carsten Nicolaisen and Ruth Pabst, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2010 (= works on contemporary church history; Series A, Sources, Vol. 20 ), Vol. 2 Landes- und Provinzialkirchen, S. 11. ISBN 978-3-525-55794-5 limited preview in the Google book search.
  2. ↑ so z. B. in Emden , cf. Website of the Ev.-ref. local community
  3. ^ Basic order of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK), Article 21: [1]
  4. ↑ http://www.ref-ag.ch/organisation-haben/kirchenrat/
  5. ↑ http://ref-arai.ch/adressen/kirchenrat.html
  6. ↑ https://refbl.ch/refbl/ueber-uns/kirchenrat/
  7. ↑ http://www.erk-bs.ch/kirchenrat
  8. ↑ http://www.gr-ref.ch/Kirchenrat
  9. ↑ http://nw-ref.ch/index.php?id=20
  10. ↑ http://www.ref-sg.ch/kirchenrat/
  11. ↑ http://www.ref-sh.ch/kirchenrat
  12. ↑ http://www.evang-tg.ch/landeskirche/kirchenrat.html
  13. ↑ http://www.ref-zug.ch/kanton-zug/organisation/kirchenrat/
  14. ↑ http://www.zh.ref.ch/organisation/kirchenrat