Hosting Committee & Churches
Reverend Ilona Szakacs-Nagy
A warm invitation from 27 August to 2 September 2024 to the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, also known as Hermannstadt and Nagyszeben. As Protestant churches in Romania, we are honoured that our region has been chosen to host the Assembly of the Communion of Protestant Churches in Europe.
The local hosts are the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania, the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Romania and the United Methodist Church in Romania. One Hungarian-speaking, one German-speaking and one Romanian-speaking church are your hosts.
The Transylvania region is a historic Protestant area. Kronstadt/Brasov/Brasso was reformed as early as 1542. However, we are particularly proud of the fact that in 1568, for the first time in Europe, the principle of tolerance was made law by the Edict of Thorenburg/Turda. The Transylvanian-Saxon city of Sibiu, mentioned in documents in 1190, will certainly be a good host. The Assembly will meet in the heart of the medieval city, in and around the Protestant parish church, which is also included in the Assembly logo.
We are particularly looking forward to the meetings in Sibiu and in the region. We hope that during this time you will not only learn about our history, but also about our joys and sorrows, as well as the confidence that sustains us in these turbulent times.
The Chairmen of the Host Committee
Bishop Reinhart Guib
Reverend Ilona Szakacs-Nagy
Hosting Churches
Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania
(Romániai Evanghélikus-Lutheránus Egyház / Biserica Evanghelica-Lutherana din Romania)
32.000 church members, 37 congregations und 116 subsidiary churches, 44 pastors
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Romania belonged to the Evangelical Church of Hungary from the time of the Reformation until the Trianon border changes in 1920, since when it has lived as both an ethnic and religious minority in Romania. In the last twenty years, two values have been particularly important: its own Lutheran identity, and openness towards larger, Lutheran or Protestant sister churches, other cultures, denominations and peoples. With its 27,000 members and 45 pastors, it wants to use these values to help build the “soul of Europe” together.
Bischof: Dezső Zoltán Adorjáni
Bulevardul 21 Decembrie 1989 Nr. 1, 400105 Cluj (Kolozsvár/Klausenburg), RUMÄNIEN
Tel.: 0040 264. 59 66 14, Fax: 0040 264. 59 38 97
E-Mail: releph@yahoo.com
EVANGÉLIKUS.RO – Romániai Evangélikus-Lutheránus Egyház (evangelikus.ro)
The Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania
(Biserica Evanghelica C. A. din Romania)
11.616 church members, 236 congregations (including microcongregations and care points) , 34 pastors
The Evangelical Church A. C. in Romania is one of the historical churches in Transylvania and in modern Romania since 1918. With its 500 years of Lutheran, Transylvanian-Saxon, and German-speaking history and tradition, its faith and spirituality, language and culture, understanding of democracy and tolerance, sense of community and responsibility, commitment to ecumenism and dialogue, to education and the conveyance of values, to social affairs and the environment, justice and united Europe, it is close to its members at home and abroad, offers home and identification and also contributes to the democratic and ecumenical discourse within the country and Europe.
Bischof: Reinhart Guib
Landeskonsistorium: Strada General Magheru 4,
550185 Sibiu (Hermannstadt), RUMÄNIEN,
Tel.: 0040 269. 21 78 64 und 23 02 02 (Bischofsamt)
Fax: 0040 269. 20 68 64
E-Mail: ekr.landeskon@evang.ro
United Methodist Church in Romania
The beginnings of today’s Methodist work in Romania date back to 1995. The first congregation was founded in Cluj-Napoca. Those responsible decided to join the United Methodist Church in 2011. The church’s work comprises three congregations with around thirty church members and three active pastors.
The church is involved in social-diaconal issues. Among other things, orphans, teenagers and young people, cancer patients as well as refugees from Ukraine are cared for and supported. The church also runs a hotel with church rooms as a community center. The UMC maintains close ecumenical relations with the Greek Catholic Church, the Hungarian-speaking Reformed Church, the German-speaking Evangelical Lutheran Church and the “Lords Army”, a renewal movement within the Romanian Orthodox Church.
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