Rita Famos

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Rita Famos
President of the Protestant Church of Switzerland
ChurchProtestant Church of Switzerland
Appointed2 November 2020
PredecessorGottfried W. Locher
Personal details
Born (1966-01-11) 11 January 1966 (age 57)
Zweisimmen, Bern, Switzerland
Denomination Protestant
Spouse Cla Famos
Children2

Rita Famos (born 11 January 1966) is a Swiss theologian. [1] Since 2 November 2020, she has served as President of the Protestant Church of Switzerland [2] and is the first woman to hold this position.

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Life and career

Rita Famos studied theology in Bern, Halle (GDR) and Richmond (USA). After her ordination, she worked as a parish priest in Uster and Zurich-Enge. From 2009 to 2011, she was spokeswoman for the word on Sunday at Schweizer Radio und Fernsehen (SRF). [3] Since 2013, she has been head of the department for special pastoral care at the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zürich.

Famos succeeded Gottfried Locher as President of the Protestant Church of Switzerland. He resigned in May 2020 after a complaint about abuse of power and "psychological and sexual violations of boundaries". [4] After the turbulence surrounding Gottfried Locher, Famos is to lead the Evangelical Reformed Church out of the crisis as a beacon of hope. [5] In interviews, she emphasized that she wanted to "establish a participatory leadership culture" [6] and work towards the Reformed Church moving together. [7]

She is President of the Association for Couples Counseling and Mediation in the Canton of Zurich [8] and a member of the program management for training and further education in pastoral care.

Personal life

Famos is married to theologian and lawyer Cla Famos [9] and has two children. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Über mich" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  2. ↑ "Rita Famos ist neue Präsidentin der Schweizer Reformierten" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Wort zum Sonntag - Das «Wort zum Sonntag» - Play SRF" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  4. ↑ Lea Hartmann (21 June 2020). "Fall Gottfried Locher wird zum Kirchenskandal" . Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  5. ↑ Gian Andrea Marti. "Evangelisch-reformierte Kirche wählt Nachfolge von Locher" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  6. ↑ Isabel Pfaff. "Zwinglis Erbin" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "Bündnerin an der Spitze einer Landeskirche" (in German). Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  8. ↑ "Trägerschaft | Paarberatung & Mediation im Kanton Zürich" . Retrieved 26 November 2020.
  9. ↑ "Über mich". Cla Famos.
  10. ↑ Universität Zürich. "Curriculum Vitae von Cla Reto Famos" (PDF). Retrieved 17 April 2019.
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