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CPCE’s New Council and Presidium elected 

At its General Assembly in Sibiu, Romania, taking place from 27 August to 2 September, a new Council of 13 members, out of which three new Presidents took office, were elected.

The new Council will guide the basis of work for the CPCE over the next six years, together with the current General Secretary Dr. Mario Fischer, who will be completing his term in the middle of the coming Council term. He will use his remaining time in the role to develop the new work processes that has been established at the Assembly.

 The three Presidents are:

• Revd Rita Famos, President of the Protestant Reformed Church in Switzerland, who will serve as the Executive President of the CPCE
• Revd Marko Tiitus, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELK) Bishop of the Southern Estonia Diocese
• Prof. Dr. Georg Plasger, a member of Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany and the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland, who teaches Systematic and Ecumenical Theology at the University of Siegen.

The new Council takes into account the different regions of the CPCE including a balanced ratio of women and men. Care has also been taken to ensure that the various denominational families such as Reformed, Lutheran, United, and Methodist churches are represented.

The new Council members and their deputies come from 15 different European countries. The following also form the new Council:

·       Revd Ingrid Bachler (Evangelical Church A.C. in Austria),

·       Revd Dr Nathan Eddy (United Reformed Church),

·       Revd Kjærgaard Fischer (Evangelical Lutheran Church              in Denmark),

·       Dimitris Boukis (Evangelical Church of Greece),

·       Revd Dr Annette Gruschwitz (United Methodist Church             in Germany),

·       Revd Eva Guldanová (Evangelical Church A. C. in                        Slovakia),

·       Pastor Dr Tamás Kodácsy (Reformed Church in                            Hungary),

·       Pastor Thomas Prieto Peral (Evangelical Lutheran                      Church in Bavaria),

·       Pastor Dr Ulrich Rüsen-Weinhold (United Protestant                  Church of France – EPUdF), and

·       Pastor Ulrike Scherf (Evangelical Church in Hesse and              Nassau)

The proxy council members are Revd Markus Schaefer (Evangelical Church in the Rhineland); Revd Marco Batenburg (Protestant Church in the Netherlands); Revd Dr Martin Hirzel (Evangelical Reformed Church Switzerland); Revd Marcin Brzóska (Evangelical Church A.C. in Poland); Revd Dr Pawel Andrzej Gajewski (Waldensian Evangelical Church); Revd Dr Jorgen Thaarup (United Methodist Church, Northern Europe); Revd Jana Hofmanová (Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren); Dr Klára Tarr Czelovszky (Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Hungary); Revd Susanne Bei der Wieden (Evangelical Reformed Church in Germany); Revd Raphael Quandt (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria); Revd Petra Renate Magne de la Croix (Union of the Protestant Church of Alsace and Lorraine – UEPAL); Revd Dr Susanne Schenk (Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg); and Revd Gerhard Servatius-Depner (Evangelical Church A.C. in Romania).