Translation of "Kirchenamt" in English

The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding, because of its denominational differences.

Only the archives, the ecclesiastical office and the library remained as a link to earlier times.

The people in the church office have got something better to do than talk to you.

Whoever usurps an ecclesiastical office is to be punished with a just penalty.

What do they do then who advocate women in office?

The issue is not women in office.

The official inauguration was performed by OKR Christoph Ernst, from the EKD Church Office.

Since 1996 he has been the director of the legal department of the Church Office.

This is exactly why I put a rabbit in charge of the Church, Benedictus!

The members came to this agreement during the German Evangelical Kirchentag in Dresden and asked the Church Office to undertake the corresponding structural measures for this.

It has been edited by the Church Office of the EKD in Hanover and the Church Foreign Office of the Moscow Patriarchate.

On 27 June the group stopped by the EKD Church Office in Hannover.

Mrs Antje Heider-Rottwilm, member of the central bureau of the Evangelical Church in Germany, outlined the role and the importance of the churches in German society and their presence at every level and throughout an individual’s lifetime.

You are a church asset.

Owners of "Bahncard 25/50" are allowed to travel by the underground (ÜSTRA) from Hanover Central Station to the church office free of charge, if the destination on the ticket is mentioned as "Hanover+City".

The Council refers in this context to the fact that the Church Office has commented on the progress report of the EU with a statement.

In I Timothy 2, the Apostle asserts that the prohibition of women in office is based on God's will expressed already in the creation order.

Let it be said, that this text has absolutely nothing to do with the question of women in church office.

Following Bishop Martin Schindehütte's participation at the inauguration of the new Finnish Archbishop Kari Mäkinen in the summer 2010 in Turku the Archbishop visited Germany in spring 2011 during which there was a good discussion in the Church Office of the EKD.

This indicates that the whole question of women in office is not a question of the woman's equality with man.

The Berlin office reports to the Council and the Church Office of the EKD as well as to the representatives of the member churches on political matters of relevance to the church.

On Human Rights Day 2010 the flyer published by the EKD Church Office "No room at Europe's inn - on the situation of human rights in the EU border countries" was issued which was well received by EKD church congregations and by many German congregations abroad.

Dismissal, retirement, resignation from office, resignation, or expulsion from the Church terminate the ministerial activity, and result in the loss of all rights associated with the ecclesiastical office.