ENI – The Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia and the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony, which are situated among many of the historic sites associated with the 16th-century reformer Martin Luther have merged to form the Evangelical Church in Central Germany.
“The witness of the church will gain in appeal if we do together the things that we can do better together,” said Bishop Wolfgang Huber, who heads the Evangelical Church in Germany (EKD), the country's main Protestant grouping, about the church union.
Slightly fewer than 25 million of Germany's 82-million people belong to the now 22 regional Protestant churches that make up the EKD.
