Johannes Friedrich is German Lutheran theologian and a German Lutheran bishop.

Education and career

Johannes Friedrich studied theology

Theology

Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...

 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the University of Tübingen, was reverend in Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

, campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and German Lutheran Provost at Redeemer Church in Jerusalem. He is a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany, since 1999 Landesbischof

Landesbischof

A Landesbischof is the head of some Protestant Landeskirche in Germany. Based on the principle of the summepiscopat, the Lutheran princes assumed the position of Head of Church in their territory after the Reformation...

(bishop) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria

Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria is a Protestant church in the German state of Bavaria. The seat of the church is in Munich....

 and since 2005 leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany

United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany

The United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany was founded on July 8, 1948 in Eisenach, Germany. Its total membership is estimated at over 10.5 million people. The Member Churches of this organisation are in full fellowship with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America...

. Friedrich has worked on a Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JD)

Justification (theology)

Rising out of the Protestant Reformation, Justification is the chief article of faith describing God's act of declaring or making a sinner righteous through Christ's atoning sacrifice....

 and supports the Christian-Islamic dialogue in order to cause the Christian-Islamic understanding

Christianity

Christianity is a monotheistic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus as presented in canonical gospels and other New Testament writings...

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He will be succeeded as bishop of the ELCB by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm.

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

External links

• German National Library