Church - EKM: More pastors retired than in active service
Retirees have become the majority of pastors in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM). "You have to imagine that we currently have more retired pastors than active ones," said regional bishop Friedrich Kramer in an interview with dpa.
According to the EKM, there were 796 pastors and ordained church educators in 2022, compared to 964 retirees. However, Protestants are also cutting jobs in view of declining membership numbers: While there were still 1148 full-time positions in the preaching ministry in 2012, the number fell to 896 in 2022. For 2024, 853 are in the framework job plan. The development is comparable for pastors alone, it was said.
Kramer emphasized that many retirees are still actively involved: These would preach again at Christmas time, for example, in order to be able to cover the abundance of church services across the large area of the EKM.
In 2022, around 615,855 people were still members of the EKM, which was 21,794 fewer than a year earlier. More than 3,000 parishes, mainly in Thuringia and Saxony-Anhalt, and 37 church districts belong to the EKM.
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Source: www.stern.de
