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Visit by Bishop Dr. Wolfgang Huber to Ireland
The Chairman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), Bishop Dr. Wolfgang Huber will be visiting Ireland between 17th and 19th May 2008. He follows an invitation of the Lutheran Church in Ireland. Bishop Huber is the highest representative of the Protestant Churches in Germany with 25 million members. He is also Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg and Silesian Oberlausitz.
On his visit to Ireland Bishop Huber is heading an EKD Council delegation. He will be accompanied by Council members Dr. Beate Scheffler, Inspector in the Department of Education of the State of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Marlehn Thieme, Senior Manager with Deutsche Bank AG.
An extensive programme of events has been planned for their visit. They will meet with Archbishop John Neill, Archbishop Alan Harper and Cardinal Seàn Brady. They will be hosted by the Irish Council of Churches and the Irish Interchurch Meeting in Belfast. The delegation has accepted an invitation by the German Am-bassador Christian Pauls, and they will take time to get to know the Lutheran Church in Ireland. Bishop Huber will preach in St. Finian’s Lutheran Church in Adelaide Road on 18th May at 11a.m. and he will meet the congregation over a cup of coffee following the service. Afterwards he will talk with the Church Council about the work of the Lutheran Church in Ireland.
Above all Bishop Huber will give two public lectures in Dublin addressing the issues of Memory and Reconciliation in Europe and Human Rights.
Public Lectures:
“Remembering the Past in Reconciliation – Ethnic and Religious Conflicts in Europe”
Presented by the Dublin Council of Churches and the Lutheran Church in Ireland
Saturday, 17th May, 5 p.m. Litton Hall, Methodist Centenary Church, Leeson Park, Dublin 6
“Theological Reasons for Human Rights
and their Consequences for the Ecumenical Process”
Presented by the School of Religions and Theology, Trinity College Dublin, the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and the Lutheran Church in Ireland
Monday, 19th May, 10 a.m. Walton Theatre (Room 2039) Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin
For further information, please contact:
Pastors Joachim and Corinna Diestelkamp
Lutheran Church in Ireland
24 Adelaide Road,
Dublin 2
Ph. +353 (0)1 676 6548
Email: [email protected]