Johannes Friedrich (bishop)

Johannes Friedrich (born June 20, 1948 in Bielefeld-Gadderbaum) is German Lutheran theologian and was a German Lutheran bishop.

Education and career

Johannes Friedrich studied theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the University of Tübingen, was reverend in Nuremberg, campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and German Lutheran Provost at Redeemer Church in Jerusalem. He is a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany, since 1999 Landesbischof (bishop) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and since 2005 leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. Friedrich has worked on a Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JD) and supports the Christian–Islamic dialogue in order to cause the Christian–Islamic understanding.

In 2011 he was succeeded as bishop of the ELCB by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm.

Works available in German

• Anvertraute Talente. 2008
• Verantwortung gemeindenah und in weltweitem Horizont. 2008
• Das Leitungsamt der Kirche in unserer Zeit. 2008
• Zeugen der Wahrheit Gottes. 2006
• Den einmal begonnenen Weg im festen Blick auf das Ziel fortsetzen. 2005
• Die Confessio Augustana und die Christenheit. 2005
• In ökumenischer Gesinnung handeln. 2004
• Die Zukunft gestalten. 2004
• Zuversicht trotz Zwischentief. 2003
• Vertrauen in die ökumenische Gemeinschaft stiften. 2002
• Ökumene in Deutschland - Blick voraus. 2002
• Zum gemeinsamen Zeugnis berufen. 2001
• Unterwegs zur Gemeinschaft. 2000
• Profil zeigen. 2000
• Gott im Bruder?. 1977
• Gott im Anderen? eine methodenkritische Untersuchung von Redaktion, Überlieferung und Tradition in Matthäus 25,31-46. 1976
• Rechtfertigung. 1976