Conference of Protestant Communities

The Conference of Protestant Communities is an association of celibate communities and communities within the EKD . At the beginning of the 2000s, the conference opened up to the entire German-speaking area. The conference meets every two years as a general assembly of representatives from all communities involved.

The spiritual and diaconal field of activity of the communities includes, for example, pastoral care , conferences, the Voluntary Social Year (FSJ), the Federal Voluntary Service (BFD), retreats and a "temporary monastery " stay.

Members

In 2017, the conference included 21 communities, including two Swiss communities:

• Brotherhood of Christ Bearers
• Sisterhood of Christ Bearers
• Community of Wülfinghausen Monastery
• Community of Casteller Ring
• Community Christ Brotherhood Selbitz
• Community of El Roi (Basel)
• Community of Jesus Brotherhood of Volkenroda Monastery
• Community Diakonissenhaus Riehen
• Zionsberg Deaconess Community
• Evangelical Brotherhood Kecharismai (Flower Monks)
• Evangelical Community of Barsinghausen Monastery
• Evangelical Sisterhood of Mary Darmstadt
• Canaan Franciscan Brotherhood
• Evangelical Gethsemane Monastery
• Jesus brotherhood
• Community of Adelshofen
• Imshausen Community
• Community of Jesus' way
• Community "Stand up!" (Karlsbad)
• St. John's Convent of Living Together (Pommelsbrunn)
• Sisterhood of the Julius Schniewind House

The conference works closely with the Meeting of Spiritual Communities, which also includes non-celibate communities.

literature

• Anna-Maria from the Wiesche, Frank Lilie (Hrsg.): Monastery in Evangelical - reports from the common life. Vier-Türme-Verlag, Münsterschwarzach 2016, ISBN 978-3-89680-904-9 .

See also

• List of communities

Web links

• Evangelical communities. Spiritual communities in German-speaking countries. In: evangelische-kommunitaeten.de
• Live with commitment. Communities and spiritual communities in the Evangelical Church in Germany. A vote by the EKD council to strengthen evangelical spirituality (= EKD texts. 88). 2007. In: ekd.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Live with commitment. Communities and spiritual communities in the Evangelical Church in Germany. A vote by the EKD council to strengthen evangelical spirituality (= EKD texts. 88). Church Office of the EKD, Hanover 2007, DNB 984780521 . In: ekd.de, accessed on August 24, 2016.
2. ↑ Temporary monastery - living in community. In: evangelische-kommunitaeten.de, accessed on August 24, 2016.
3. ^ Friederike Milbradt (text), Laura Edelbacher (illustration): In the monastery for a time. In: Zeitmagazin . No. 34, August 11, 2016, category: Map of Germany, ISSN  2190-9903 , p. 10 ( online , accessed on January 21, 2017).
4. ^ Members. Conference of Protestant Communities, accessed January 21, 2017 .