CEC » Governing Board

The 20-member Governing Board of the Conference of European Churches meets twice annually to oversee the implementation of the decisions of the assembly ^[1].

In June, the 2018 Novi Sad General Assembly of the Conference of European Churches elected a new presidency. Rev. Christian Krieger of the Reformed Protestant Church of Alsace and Lorraine was elected president, and as vice-presidents the Rt Rev. Dr Gulnar Francis-Dehqani of the Church of England and Metropolitan Cleopas Strongylis of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

Presidency

Rev. Christian Krieger Reformed Protestant Church of Alsace and Lorraine President	Photo: Albin Hillert/CEC
Rt Rev. Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani Church of England Vice-President	Photo: Albin Hillert/CEC
Metropolitan Cleopas Ecumenical Patriarchate Vice-President	Photo: Albin Hillert/CEC

Governing Board members:

Mr Andreas Henriksen Aarflot, Church of Norway
Rev. Anne Burghardt, Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church
Bishop Nick Baines, Church of England
Rev. Jelle Brouwer, United Protestant Church of Belgium
Dr Valérie Duval-Poujol, Federation of Evangelical Baptist Churches of France
Very Rev. Anders Gadegaard, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Denmark
Archimandrite Ignatios, Church of Greece
Ms Emma Johnson, Methodist Church in Britain
Metropolitan Joseph of Western and Southern Europe, Romanian Orthodox Church
Prof Petr Kratochvil, Evangelical Church of Czech Brethren
Rev. Frank Kopania, Evangelical Church in Germany
Bishop Hovakim Manukyan, Diocese of the Armenian Church of the United Kingdom and Ireland
Rev. Alison McDonald, Church of Scotland
Archimandrite Nektarios, Church of Cyprus
Dr Aleksandra Pistalo, Serbian Orthodox Church
Ms Zsuzsanna Répás, Reformed Christian Church in Slovakia
Ms Lea Kathrin Schlenker, Evangelical Church in Germany

Electoral reserve:

Rev. Alfredo Abad, Spanish Evangelical Church
Deacon Iakovos Andriopoulos, Church of Greece
Rev. Ella-Maria Boba, Evangelical Church in Austria
Ms Katarzyna Charkiewicz, Polish Autocephalous Orthodox Church
Rev. Peter Ciaccio, Evangelical Methodist Church in Italy
Rev. Dr Vilmos Fischl, Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hungary
Ms Karine Haryutunyan, Armenian Apostolic Church
Ms Åsa Ingårda, Church of Sweden
Ms Renate Japenga, Protestant Church in the Netherlands
Rev. Klaas van der Kamp, Protestant Church in the Netherlands
OKR Rainer Kiefer, Evangelical Church in Germany
Ms Maria Mountraki, Orthodox Church of Finland
Mr Tuomo Mäkelä, Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
Rev. Gregory Pelushi, Orthodox Autocephalous Church of Albania
Rev. Daniel Topalski, United Methodist Church in Bulgaria
Dr Petr Jan Vins, Old-Catholic Church in the Czech Republic
Rev. Canon Carol Wardman, Church in Wales

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