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Darmstadt (dpa / lhe) - The church president of the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN), Volker Jung, is the new chairman of the full conference of the Union of Evangelical Churches (UEK).
The 61-year-old is now at the head of the union of twelve Protestant churches in Germany, as the EKHN announced on Friday.
The full conference of the ICE elected Jung on Friday, it said.
In these offices he succeeds the former Palatine church president Christian Schad.
Schad has been at the head of the ICE since 2013.
According to the EKHN, Jung himself has been the deputy chairman of the ICE since 2015 and has been the church president of the EKHN, based in Darmstadt, since 2009.
In his introductory speech, Jung said, according to the information, that it remains an important task of the ICE to work on «promoting community and unity».
This applies not only within the Protestant churches in Germany, but also in the global ecumenical movement.
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According to the information, the UEK is an amalgamation of twelve churches of the United, Reformed and Lutheran confessions in the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
It therefore represents around twelve million church members.
The full conference is the highest body of the ICE.
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