Protestant Church of Bremen

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Protestant Church of Bremen or Evangelical Church of Bremen is the most important united protestant denomination in the German state of Bremen. The seat of the church is in Bremen.

It is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany EKD, and is a united Church. The leader of the church is Brigitte Boehme (2006). The church has approx. 243,000 municipality members (in December 2005) in 68 church municipalities and is one of the united churches within the EKD. The main church of the Evangelical Church of Bremen is Bremen cathedral.

The Evangelical Church of Bremen is a member of the UEK. In Bremen the church has its own evangelical academy.

The Ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions ^[1] has been allowed.

1 Area covered
2 Leading persons and bishops in history
3 Synod (=Kirchentag)
4 History
5 Books
6 References
7 External links

[edit] Area covered

The area covered by the Evangelical Church of Bremen is essentially equivalent to the city of Bremen. However the United Protestant Community of the Smidt Gedächtniskirche in Bremerhaven belongs to the Bremen church. The remaining church parishes in the city of Bremerhaven, belongto the Protestant Lutheran Church of Hanover, not Bremen because these areas were only combined with Bremerhaven in 1939 and this wasn't carried out in the church combination with Bremen. The borders of the church municipality in the village go over the state line into the area of the Lower Saxon district of Verden.

[edit] Leading persons and bishops in history

? - 1959: Ferdinand Donandt
1959 - 1969: Dr. Arnold Rutenberg
1969 - 1977: Heinz Hermann Brauer
1976 - 1989: Eckart Ranft
1989 - 2001: Heinz Hermann Brauer
2001 - today: Brigitte Boehme

[edit] Synod (=Kirchentag)

The election of the synod is for six years. The elected leader of the "Kirchentag" is also leader of the church.

[edit] History

On 9 November 1522 was in Bremen the first protestant prayer in a church. Since that year the german city Bremen was during all following years a protestant city.

[edit] Books

Book for singing of the evangelisch-lutherischen Domgemeinde to Bremen, Bremen, since 1779
New Bremisches Psalm- and Book for Singig for official and "besonderen Erbauung der Reformirten Stadt-und Landgemeinden, mit Hoch-Obrigkeitlicher Bewilligung", editor from the Bremischen Ministerio, Bremen, 1767; with later title "Evangelisches Gesangbuch, hrsg. vom Predigerverein der fünf reformierten Gemeinden im Herzogtum Bremen", Vegesack, since 1857
Praying book and book for singing - "Neue durch einen Anhang vermehrte Ausgabe", Bremen, 1864
"Christliches Gesangbuch zur Beförderung öffentlicher und häuslicher Andacht", Bremen, 1812
Book for singig "gemeinschaftlicher und einsamer Andacht, at the beginnig only for the "vereinigte evangelische Gemeine of Bremerhaven", Bremerhaven", since February 1857
Evangelical book for singing of parishes in Bremen, Bremen, since March 1873
Bremer Gesangbuch, Gütersloh, since 1917
Evangelical book for singing - Book for singing of the Evangelical-lutheran Churches in Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg, Mecklenburg, Hamburg, Lübeck, Eutin and the Evangelical Church of Bremen, Hamburg, 1949
Evangelical Kirchengesangbuch - Edition for the Evangelical Church of Bremen, Hamburg, since 1950
Evangelical book for singing - Edition for the Evangelical-Lutheran Churches in Lower-Saxony and for the Evangelical Church of Bremen, Hanover/Göttingen, since 1994