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Johannes Friedrich
Johannes Friedrich (born 20 June 1948 in
Bielefeld-Gadderbaum) is German Lutheran theologian and was a German Lutheran bishop.
Education and career
Friedrich studied
theology at the
University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the
University of Tübingen,
[1] was
reverend in
Nuremberg, campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and
German Lutheran Provost at Redeemer Church in
Jerusalem.
[2] He is a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany,
[3] since 1999
Landesbischof (bishop) of the
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
[4] and from 2005 leading bishop of the
United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany.
[5] Friedrich worked on a Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on the
Doctrine of Justification (JD)
[6] and supports the Christian–Islamic dialogue in order to cause the Christian–Islamic understanding.
[7]
[8]
In 2011 Friedrich was succeeded as bishop of the ELCB by
Heinrich Bedford-Strohm.
[9]
Other activities
Works available in German
- Anvertraute Talente. 2008
- Verantwortung gemeindenah und in weltweitem Horizont. 2008
- Das Leitungsamt der Kirche in unserer Zeit. 2008
- Zeugen der Wahrheit Gottes. 2006
- Den einmal begonnenen Weg im festen Blick auf das Ziel fortsetzen. 2005
- Die
Confessio Augustana und die Christenheit. 2005
- In ökumenischer Gesinnung handeln. 2004
- Die Zukunft gestalten. 2004
- Zuversicht trotz Zwischentief. 2003
- Vertrauen in die ökumenische Gemeinschaft stiften. 2002
- Ökumene in Deutschland - Blick voraus. 2002
- Zum gemeinsamen Zeugnis berufen. 2001
- Unterwegs zur Gemeinschaft. 2000
- Profil zeigen. 2000
- Gott im Bruder?. 1977
- Gott im Anderen? eine methodenkritische Untersuchung von Redaktion, Überlieferung und Tradition in Matthäus 25,31-46. 1976
- Rechtfertigung. 1976
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