Manfred Rekowski
Manfred Rekowski (born February 11, 1958 in Mojtyny , Masuria ) is a German Protestant theologian and has been President of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland since 2013 .
Life
At the age of five, Rekowski moved with his parents and four siblings from Poland to the Federal Republic of Germany. He experienced his childhood first in Gladbeck , then in Honrath in the Rhein-Sieg district . After secondary school and secondary school he graduated from high school and then studied Protestant theology in Bethel , Marburg , Bochum and Wuppertal . In 1982 he started his vicariate in Wuppertal-Barmen and in 1986 he took up his first pastor's position in the Wichlinghausen community . In 1993 he was elected superintendent of the Barmen parish , and in 2005 superintendent of the Wuppertal parish that emerged from a merger of the Elberfeld and Barmen parishes. The regional synod appointed him in 2011 as senior church councilor in the church leadership of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and elected him as president in January 2013. On March 3, 2013, Rekowski was introduced to his office in the Johanneskirche in Düsseldorf . He is chairman of the EKD Chamber for Migration and Integration .
family
Manfred Rekowski has been married to the secondary school teacher Birgit Rekowski since 1980; the marriage resulted in two children.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Introduction to church leadership - standing together under the cross . Website of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, March 3, 2013, accessed on February 10, 2018.
- ↑ Chamber for Migration and Integration . Website of the Evangelical Church in Germany, accessed on February 10, 2018.
Heinrich Held (1948–1957) | Joachim Beckmann (1958–1971) | Karl Immer (1971–1981) | Gerhard Brandt (1981–1989) | Peter Beier (1989–1996) | Hans-Ulrich Stephan provisional (1996–1997) | Manfred Kock (1997-2003) | Nikolaus Schneider (2003–2013) | Manfred Rekowski (since 2013)
Joachim Liebig ( Anhalt ) | Jochen Cornelius-Bundschuh ( Baden ) | Heinrich Bedford-Strohm ( Bavaria ) | Christian Stäblein ( Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ) | Christoph Meyns ( Braunschweig ) | Edda Bosse / Bernd Kuschnerus ( Bremen ) | Ralf Meister ( Hanover ) | Volker Jung ( Hessen-Nassau ) | Beate Hofmann ( Kurhessen-Waldeck ) | Dietmar Arends ( Lippe ) | Friedrich Kramer ( Central Germany ) | Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt ( Northern Germany ) | Thomas Adomeit ( Oldenburg ) | Christian Schad ( Palatinate ) | Martin Heimbucher ( Reformed Church ) | Manfred Rekowski ( Rhineland ) | Tobias Bilz ( Saxony ) | Karl-Hinrich Manzke ( Schaumburg-Lippe ) | Annette Kurschus ( Westphalia ) | Frank Otfried July ( Württemberg )
Chairman of the EKD Council: Heinrich Bedford-Strohm | Bishop Abroad: Petra Bosse-Huber | Military Bishop: Sigurd Rink
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rekowski, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Protestant theologian |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 11, 1958 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mojtyny |