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Lutheran Church elects 1st female leader

Wed Oct 28, 2009 7:48 AM EDT
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<p>Bischoefin Margot Kaessmann, neu gewaehlte Ratsvorsitzende der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, EKD, lacht am Mittwoch, 28.Oktober 2009, in Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, nach ihrer Wahl waehrend der Tagung der 11.Synode der EKD. (Photo/Daniel Maurer)-----Bishop Margot Kaessmann, chairwoman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, EKD, smiles after her electrion during a meeting of the 11th synod of the EKD in Ulm, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)</p>

Bischoefin Margot Kaessmann, neu gewaehlte Ratsvorsitzende der Evangelischen Kirche in Deutschland, EKD, lacht am Mittwoch, 28.Oktober 2009, in Ulm, Baden-Wuerttemberg, nach ihrer Wahl waehrend der Tagung der 11.Synode der EKD. (Photo/Daniel Maurer)-----Bishop Margot Kaessmann, chairwoman of the Council of the Evangelical Church in Germany, EKD, smiles after her electrion during a meeting of the 11th synod of the EKD in Ulm, Germany, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009. (AP Photo/Daniel Maurer)

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BERLIN — Germany's Lutheran Church has elected a woman to lead the nation's Protestants for the first time in its history.

Margot Kaessmann was overwhelmingly voted into the church's top position on Wednesday.

The 51-year-old bishop holds a doctorate in theology and has four grown children. She is one of only two women to serve as bishop in Germany's Protestant church.

She was ordained in 1985 and has held many offices within the church. Kaessmann is viewed as being politically active and media savvy.

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bonos_rama

Why has it taken this long?

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Reply#1 - Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:06 AM EDT
Subhan Zia

interesting

    Reply#2 - Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:24 AM EDT
    HomeBrewMan

    i guess they ignored bible teaching on this matter.... again.

      Reply#3 - Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:29 AM EDT
      miasma

      The more desperate organized religions become the more moderate they pretend to be.

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      Reply#4 - Wed Oct 28, 2009 8:37 AM EDT
      skip33666

      This is another one of thos "stories with an agenda" that make today's politicized, anti-religious mainstream media the people we know and love (sarcasm). For God's sake (pun inttended), it is not even the UNITED STATES. No, the outrageous nature of this story is NOT that it is "reported", but that it is FEATURED as a major story. There can't be any LESS significant "news" story today. My reaction to this "news" can be summarized in two words: "Who cares?"

      By the way, one of the major news stories of our time is the DECLINE of "mainline" Protestant religions, and even the Catholic Church, and the RISE of "fundamentalist", evangelical Christian churches. But that is a story in which the mainstream media has no interest, as mainstream "journalists" have no interest in evngelicals--EXCEPT to feature them in a NEGATIVE light, or to feature some evangelical church adopting what "journalists" regard as the "right" kind of religion (welcoming homosexuals, sex, or whatever). I am an agnostic myself, and therefore I am probably only 99% better informed on--and tolerant of--religion than mainstream "journalists", rather than 1000%.

        Reply#5 - Wed Oct 28, 2009 9:36 AM EDT
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