{"id":1569,"date":"2020-07-02T07:10:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:10:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/2025.leuenberg.eu\/2020\/07\/02\/cpce-welcomes-new-member-evangelical-lutheran-church-of-iceland\/"},"modified":"2020-07-02T07:10:53","modified_gmt":"2020-07-02T06:10:53","slug":"cpce-welcomes-new-member-evangelical-lutheran-church-of-iceland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/2020\/07\/02\/cpce-welcomes-new-member-evangelical-lutheran-church-of-iceland\/","title":{"rendered":"CPCE welcomes new member: Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the CPCE agreed to admit the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (Thjodkirkja) as a member church &#8211; a very warm welcome to the Islandic church! Here is a short introduction:<\/p>\n<p><strong>History<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">After the Christianisation of Iceland around the year 1000, the country had two Bishops: Sk\u00e1lholt in the south and H\u00f3lar in the north of the island. The Reformation took hold in 1550. The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland is the country\u2019s national church (\u201c\u00dej\u00f3\u00f0kirkjan\u201d), encompassing approximately 70\u00a0percent of the population with roughly 231,000 members. The process of separating the church from the state was instigated by parliamentary decree in 1997 and then expanded in 2020. Its constitutionally enshrined national status reserves an eminent role for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland in the state and society, for instance in traditional ceremonies such as the annual opening of parliament and the inauguration of a new President. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Relations with the CPCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span lang=\"EN-GB\">For many years, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland was one of the \u201cparticipating\u201d churches of the Leuenberg Fellowship who were however not signatories to the Leuenberg Agreement \u2013 in this case, partly due to the lack of other Protestant churches in Iceland. With the advancing pluralisation process in Iceland, the separation of the state and the church and its many international church connections, intensive discussion of membership of the CPCE commenced in 2017, and the Leuenberg Agreement was translated into Icelandic. Following the agreement of the key commissions and body of ministers, in November 2019 the synod decided to seek full membership in the CPCE. The Leuenberg Agreement has been the subject of thorough theological scrutiny, particularly by Kristj\u00e1n Valur Ing\u00f3lfsson, the Bishop emeritus of Sk\u00e1lholt. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Der Rat der GEKE stimmte der Aufnahme der Evangelisch-Lutherischen Lirche Islands (Thjodkirkja) als Mitgliedskirche zu &#8211; herzlich willkommen! Hier eine kurze Vorstellung:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Geschichte<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Nach der Christianisierung Islands um das Jahr 1000 gab es zwei Bist\u00fcmer: Sk\u00e1lholt im S\u00fcden und H\u00f3lar im Norden der Insel. Die Reformation wurde 1550 eingef\u00fchrt. Die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Islands ist die Nationalkirche (\u201e\u00dej\u00f3\u00f0kirkjan\u201c) Islands, zu der etwa 70 Prozent der isl\u00e4ndischen Bev\u00f6lkerung geh\u00f6ren, sie hat damit gut 231\u00a0000 Mitglieder. Im Jahr 1997 wurde durch einen Parlamentsbeschluss die Trennung von Kirche und Staat eingeleitet und 2020 erweitert. Durch den konstitutionell verankerten Status als Nationalkirche spielt die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Islands weiterhin eine bedeutende Rolle in Staat und Gesellschaft, etwa bei traditionellen Zeremonien wie der j\u00e4hrlichen Er\u00f6ffnung des Parlaments oder der Einf\u00fchrung eines\/einer neuen Pr\u00e4sidenten\/Pr\u00e4sidentin.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\"><strong>Beziehungen zur GEKE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">\u00dcber lange Jahre war die Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirche Islands eine sog. beteiligte Kirche der Leuenberger Kirchengemeinschaft, die die Leuenberger Konkordie jedoch nicht unterschrieben hatte, u.a. weil es mangels anderer evangelischer Kirchen in Island die Notwendigkeit nicht stellte.Im Zuge der zunehmenden Pluralisierung in Island, der Trennung von Staat und Kirche sowie vieler internationaler Verbindungen der Kirche, wurde der Beitritt zur GEKE ab 2017 intensiv diskutiert. Dabei wurde die Leuenberger Konkordie ins Isl\u00e4ndische \u00fcbersetzt. Nach der Zustimmung der einschl\u00e4gigen Kommissionen sowie der Pfarrerschaft, entschied die Synode im November 2019, die Vollmitgliedschaft in der GEKE anzustreben. Die gr\u00fcndliche theologische Auseinandersetzung mit der Leuenberger Konkordie wurde insbesondere von Kristj\u00e1n Valur Ing\u00f3lfsson, dem ehemaligen Bischof von Sk\u00e1lholt vorangetrieben.<\/p>\n<p>Link zur <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkjan.is\/\">Thjodkirkja<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Photo (Thjodkirkja): Hallgrimskirkja Reykjavik<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Council of the CPCE agreed to admit the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (Thjodkirkja) as a member church &#8211; a very warm welcome to the Islandic church! Here is a short introduction: History After the Christianisation of Iceland around the year 1000, the country had two Bishops: Sk\u00e1lholt in the south and H\u00f3lar in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,20,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-deutsch","category-english","category-featured","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.leuenberg.eu\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}