The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck (; EKKW) is a United Protestant church body in former Hesse-Cassel and the Waldeck part of the former Free State of Waldeck-Pyrmont.
Constitution
The EKKW is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) and the Reformed Alliance, www.reformierter-bund.de/side.php?news_id=113&part_id=0&navi=1 and is based on the teachings presented by Martin Luther during the Reformation. Since October 1, 2019, the bishop is Beate Hofmann. The bishop's preaching venue is St. Martin's Church in Kassel. It's a Protestant church united in administration, comprising Lutheran, Reformed (Calvinist), and Protestant union congregations upholding Calvinist (Reformed) and Lutheran traditions. The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck is one of 20 churches within the EKD.
Bishops 1924–1934: Heinrich Möller June–December 1934: Karl Theys 1935–1945: Friedrich Happich, 1945–1963: Adolf Wüstemann 1963–1978: Erich Vellmer 1978–1991: Hans-Gernot Jung 1991–1992: Erhard Giesler 1992–2000: Christian Zippert 2000–2019: Martin Hein 2019–: Beate Hofmann
History The Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck was founded in 1934 through a merger of two other formerly independent churches: the Evangelical Church of Hesse-Kassel and the Evangelical State Church of Waldeck and Pyrmont (Waldeck part).
Practices Ordination of women and blessing of same-sex marriages were allowed.Wiesbadener Tagblatt:Synode billigt Segnung homosexueller Paare (german) Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate-Waldeck.de: Traugesetz gilt in Kurhessen-Waldeck künftig auch für gleichgeschlechtliche Paare (german) , 2018
References
Sources Michael Hederich: Um die Freiheit der Kirche. Geschichte der Evangelischen Kirche von Kurhessen-Waldeck. Evangelischer Presseverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel 1972 (Monographia Hassiae 1, ISSN 0720-4671). Sebastian Parker: Die Marburger Konferenz. Fusionspläne und Zusammenarbeit hessischer evangelischer Landeskirchen im 20. Jahrhundert. Verlag der Hessische Kirchengeschichtlichen Vereinigung, Darmstadt u. a. 2008, (Quellen und Studien zur hessischen Kirchengeschichte 16), (Zugleich: Darmstadt, Techn. Hochsch., Magisterarbeit, 2004). Karl Schilling: Der Zusammenschluss der Landeskirchen Waldeck und Hessen-Kassel. In: Waldeckischer Landeskalender. 2009 (2008), ZDB-ID 513652–0, S. 80–92. Dieter Waßmann: Waldeck. Geschichte einer Landeskirche. Evangelischer Presseverband Kurhessen-Waldeck, Kassel 1984, (Monographia Hassiae 10).
External links Official website