Johannes Friedrich

Johannes Friedrich (20 June 1948 – 3 September 2025) was a German Lutheran theologian and bishop.

Biography Friedrich studied theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Tübingen. He was a reverend in Nuremberg, a campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and provost at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. In October 2009 he was elected as a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany. Since 1999 he was Landesbischof (bishop) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, and in November 2005 he became the leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. In 2000, Friedrich worked on a Lutheran/Catholic joint declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. He supported dialogue in order to foster Christian–Islamic understanding. Friedrich was a member of the Deloitte Germany Advisory Board. Friedrich died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 77.

Works available in German

Anvertraute Talente, 2008 Verantwortung gemeindenah und in weltweitem Horizont, 2008 Das Leitungsamt der Kirche in unserer Zeit, 2008 Zeugen der Wahrheit Gottes, 2006 Den einmal begonnenen Weg im festen Blick auf das Ziel fortsetzen, 2005 Die Confessio Augustana und die Christenheit, 2005 In ökumenischer Gesinnung handeln, 2004 Die Zukunft gestalten, 2004 Zuversicht trotz Zwischentief, 2003 Vertrauen in die ökumenische Gemeinschaft stiften, 2002 Ökumene in Deutschland—Blick voraus, 2002 Zum gemeinsamen Zeugnis berufen, 2001 Unterwegs zur Gemeinschaft, 2000 Profil zeigen, 2000 Gott im Bruder?, 1977 Gott im Anderen? eine methodenkritische Untersuchung von Redaktion, Überlieferung und Tradition in Matthäus 25,31-46, 1976 Rechtfertigung, 1976