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Speeches

07 Oktober 2021 Speech
Presentation on October 7. 2021 at St. Egidio in Rome

EKD Council Chair, Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, underlines Importance of Local Churches at Peace Meeting in Rome - Bedford-Strohm: “The ideal actors in a global civil society”.
03 September 2019 Speech
Address at the summer reception of the Institute for Confessional Studies (KI) on “Ecumenism”, on September 3, 2019 in Bensheim, Germany

Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany
23 August 2018 Speech
Speech at the WCC 70th anniversary celebration on August 23 in Amsterdam

Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, Chair of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany: Speech at the WCC 70th anniversary celebration on August 23 in Amsterdam
27 Juni 2018 Speech
"…a little lower than God." Images of humankind in a digital age

Address of Bishop Heinrich Bedford-Strohm, chair of council, at the EKD reception for St. John’s Day on 27 June 2018 in Berlin
22 Juni 2017 Speech
Address at the St John’s Day reception of the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD) on 22 June 2017 in Berlin

Ladies and gentlemen,It is almost an irony of history that the message of a church of the word was mainly put across by pictures, of disputable historical origin, what’s more!
09 Mai 2017 Speech
Statement by Margot Kässmann, The Special Envoy of the Evangelical Church in Germany for the 2017 Reformation Jubilee

The World Reformation Exhibition is for me the key event during the whole of Reformation Summer 2017. It will offer room for different approaches to Reformation ideas and projects not only in churches and religions, but also in public and social life....