Taco Bay

Taco Marianus Christian Bay (born September 22, 1933 in Beatenberg ; † August 5, 2011 in Überlingen ) was the fourth arch-chief of the Christian community .

Live and act

Taco Bay completed training as a special needs teacher and in remedial education in Great Britain . In 1962 he was ordained a priest of the Christian Community in London , where from 1974 he held leading positions, first in the Netherlands and later in Baden-Württemberg. In 1986, he was the first arch governor who no longer belonged to the group of founders to succeed his predecessor Rudolf Frieling in the highest office of his religious community.

While his predecessors Frieling, Emil Bock and Friedrich Rittelmeyer had worked particularly through the written word, Taco Bay attached greater importance to direct personal encounters: his work “reflected the growing globalization of the Christian community. Taco Bay ordained priests in English, Dutch, French and German. It became important to him that the various regions of the Christian community should work together in a fraternal way, right down to the financial situation. Under his leadership it also became possible that the training to become a priest can now take place in three seminars: in Chicago (now Spring Valley), Hamburg and Stuttgart. ” Vicke von Behr-Negendanck was his successor in the office of Archoberlenker .

Works (selection)

• Medicine on the threshold , Vlg. Am Goetheanum, Dornach 1993 (with Michaela Glöckler ) ( ISBN 978-3723506783 )
• Meditative prayers for today . / Adam Bittleston. German by Markus Wülfing. With an afterword from Taco Bay. Stuttgart: Verlag Freies Geistesleben 1994 ( ISBN 978-3-7725-1067-0 )

literature

• Deborah Ravetz: Taco Bay: His Life and Work . Floris Books 2012 ( ISBN 978-0863159190 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Werner Thiede : Taco MC Bay died . In: Material service of the Evangelical Central Office for Weltanschauungsfragen 10/2011