Johannes Friedrich (born 20 June 1948 in Bielefeld-Gadderbaum) is German Lutheran theologian and was a German Lutheran bishop.
Johannes Friedrich (born 20 June 1948 in Bielefeld-Gadderbaum) is German Lutheran theologian and was a German Lutheran bishop.
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]
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