Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck
| Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck | |
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| Abbreviation | EKKW |
| Type | Landeskirche, member of the Evangelical Church in Germany |
| Classification | Protestant |
| Orientation | United Protestant (Lutheran & Reformed) |
| Leader | Bishop Martin Hein |
| Associations | Union Evangelischer Kirchen, Reformed Alliance |
| Region | ~ 10.000 km² in northern and eastern Hesse, Schmalkalden in Thuringia |
| Headquarters | Kassel, Germany |
| Origin | 1934 |
| Merger of | Protestant Churches of Hesse-Kassel and Waldeck |
| Members |
885.666 (2012) ~ 50% of total population |
| Official website | http://www.ekkw.de/ |
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The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck (German: Evangelische Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck; EKKW) is a United Protestant church body in former Hesse-Cassel and the Waldeck part of the former Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
The EKKW is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Reformed Alliance,[1] and is based on the teachings presented by Martin Luther during the Reformation. Their Bishop is Martin Hein. The bishop's preaching venue is the Martinskirche in Kassel. It is a Protestant church united in administration, comprising Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist), and Protestant union congregations upholding Calvinist (Reformed) and Lutheran traditions. The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck is one of 20 churches within the EKD.
Practices
Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex unions were allowed.[2][3]
Sources
- Michael Hederich: Um die Freiheit der Kirche. Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck. Evangelischer Presseverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel 1972 (Monographia Hassiae 1, ISSN 0720-4671).
- Sebastian Parker: Die Marburger Konferenz. Fusionspläne und Zusammenarbeit hessischer evangelischer Landeskirchen im 20. Jahrhundert. Verlag der Hessische Kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung, Darmstadt u. a. 2008, ISBN 978-3-931849-28-3 (Quellen und Studien zur hessischen Kirchengeschichte 16), (Zugleich: Darmstadt, Techn. Hochsch., Magisterarbeit, 2004).
- Karl Schilling: Der Zusammenschluss der Landeskirchen Waldeck und Hessen-Kassel. In: Waldeckischer Landeskalender. 2009 (2008), ZDB-ID 513652-0, S. 80–92.
- Dieter Waßmann: Waldeck. Geschichte einer Landeskirche. Evangelischer Presseverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel 1984, ISBN 3-920310-40-3 (Monographia Hassiae 10).
External links
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on April 13, 2014. Retrieved April 13, 2014. www.reformierter-bund.de/side.php?news_id=113&part_id=0&navi=1
- ↑ Wiesbadener Tagblatt:Synode billigt Segnung homosexueller Paare (german)
- ↑ Osthessen-News:Synode für öffentliche Segnung von Paaren in eingetragenen Lebenspartnerschaft