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. Protestantism is a general grouping of denominations within Christianity. ... The Free Hanseatic City of Bremen (official name; German: Freie Hansestadt Bremen) is the smallest of Germanys 16 Federal States (Bundesländer). ... The river Weser flows through Bremen to the estuary at Bremerhaven. ...

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 in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of the 23 most important Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions. ... The Evangelical Church in Germany (German Evangelische Kirche in Deutschland, abbreviated as EKD) is a federation of 24 Lutheran, Reformed and United churches in their respective regions. ... United can refer to: // United Airlines United Petroleum, an Australian fuel company. ...

The Evangelical Church of Bremen is a member of the UEK. In Bremen the church has its own evangelical academy. The river Weser flows through Bremen to the estuary at Bremerhaven. ...

The Ordination of women and the blessing of same-sex unions has been allowed. There are a variety of positions on the ordination of women among different religions, sects and denominations within each religion. ... The blessing of same-sex unions is a practice officially sanctioned in some parishes of the Anglican Church of Canada and the Episcopal Church in the USA. It is also, according to the current Anglican Primate of Canada, widely practised in parishes of other churches of the Anglican Communion, without...

 === 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 Evangelical-Lutheran State 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.

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

Synod (=Kirchentag)

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

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. Events January 9 - Adrian Dedens becomes Pope Adrian VI. February 26 - Execution by hanging of Cuauhtémoc, Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlan under orders of conquistador Hernán Cortés. ...

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

External links

• http://www.kirche-bremen.de/ (Evangelical Church of Bremen)
• http://www.ekd.de (Evangelical Church in Germany)