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 |
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Rt Rev. Dr Guli Francis-Dehqani Church of England Vice-President |
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Metropolitan Cleopas Ecumenical Patriarchate Vice-President |
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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 Weaver, 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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