Nikolaus Schneider
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Nikolaus Schneider (* 3 September 1947) is since 9 November 2010 president of the council of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD).
Life
Born in Duisburg, Schneider studied in Wuppertal, Göttingen and Münster and was ordained on 14 November 1976. He was vice-praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (EKiR) and succeeded in 2003 Manfred Kock as praeses of the EKiR until in 2013 Manfred Rekowski was elected his successor due to Schneider's pensioning. Since Margot Käßmann's resignation in February 2010, Schneider was acting president of the council of the EKD and was elected president on 9 November 2010. Between 1998 and 2003 he served as praeses of the synod of the Evangelical Church of the Union, a position in which he had also succeeded Kock.
External links
- Website at Evangelical Church in the Rhineland
- Schneider's vita on EKD website
- Schneider's election on EKD website
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