Rosemarie Wenner

Rosemarie Wenner (born July 1, 1955 in Eppingen near Heilbronn ) is a German Methodist clergyman. They held office until May 2017 as bishop of the United Methodist Church (UMC) in Germany and was 2012-2014 President of the Bishops' Council of the United Methodist Church.

Life

Wenner studied at the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical Methodist Church in Reutlingen . After her ordination in 1981 she worked as a parish pastor in the parish districts of Karlsruhe- Durlach, Hockenheim and Darmstadt / Sprendlingen. From 1996 she was Superintendent of the Frankfurt District of the Church. After being elected on February 16, 2005 by the Central Conference in Germany, on April 1, 2005, she became the first woman outside the USA to take over the office of bishop in the Methodist Church . She is the successor to Bishop Walter Klaiber , who has held this office since 1989. Her term of office ended in May 2017. The Central Conference elected Pastor Harald Rückert from Reutlingen as her successor .

Wenner is a member of the board of trustees of the ProChrist association and was on the board of the Christian Churches Working Group in Germany . In May 2008 she became president of the Association of Evangelical Free Churches , and from April 2011 to March 2017 she was vice-president of this association.

Publications

Living in the future , media work of the Evangelical Methodist Church, Frankfurt, M. 2012, ISBN 978-3-940463-23-4 .

Web links

Literature by and about Rosemarie Wenner in the catalog of the German National Library
Portrait on emk.de
Interview after taking office as President of the Council of Bishops
Message from the EMKNI (including picture; source: CPCE )

Individual evidence

^ Bishop Wenner at the head of the UMC bishops' council , emk.de, report from April 27, 2012.

^ Catholic News Agency, March 16, 2017.

↑ Kuratorium ProChrist eV , prochrist.org, accessed on July 1, 2015.

↑ Board of Directors of the ACK , oekumene-ack.de, accessed on July 1, 2015.

↑ DIE GEMEINDE magazine, 10/2008, p. 23

↑ Christoph Stiba new VEF President . In: Methodist Church . ( emk.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).

personal data
SURNAME	Wenner, Rosemarie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German bishop of the United Methodist Church
DATE OF BIRTH	July 1, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eppingen near Heilbronn

[1] Bishop Wenner at the head of the UMC bishops' council , emk.de, report from April 27, 2012.

[2] Catholic News Agency, March 16, 2017.

[3] Kuratorium ProChrist eV , prochrist.org, accessed on July 1, 2015.

[4] Board of Directors of the ACK , oekumene-ack.de, accessed on July 1, 2015.

[5] DIE GEMEINDE magazine, 10/2008, p. 23

[6] Christoph Stiba new VEF President . In: Methodist Church . ( emk.de [accessed on July 10, 2018]).