page_title: Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau
section_title: Church Presidents
hierarchical_section_title: Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau / Management and Administration / Church Presidents
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Volker Jung bei dem ersten Gottesdienst auf der Hauptbühne (im Goldsteinpark) auf der Landesgartenschau Bad Nauheim 2010.
context_page_description: The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau is a United Protestant church body in the German states of Hesse and Rhineland-Palatinate. There is no bishop and therefore no cathedral. One of its most prominent churches is Katharinenkirche in Frankfurt am Main.
  Dating back to the union in the Duchy of Nassau in August 1817, before the Prussian Union of September 1817, it is the first United and uniting church in the world. The EKHN is a full member of the Evangelical Church in Germany, and is based on the teachings brought forward by Martin Luther during the Reformation. The Church President is Volker Jung. It is a united church, combining both Calvinist and Lutheran traditions. Member of the Reformed Alliance in Germany. The Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau is one of 20 churches in the EKD, has 1,516,180 members in 1,184 parishes. The territory of the EKHN includes the territories of the former People's State of Hesse and the Prussian Wiesbaden Region, which now form the southern and western part of the German state of Hesse and portions of the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate. It's the most important Protestant denomination in this area.
context_section_description: 1947–1964: Martin Niemöller
  1964–1968: Wolfgang Sucker
  1969–1985: Helmut Hild
  1985–1992: Helmut Spengler
  1993–2008: Peter Steinacker
  2009–2017: Volker Jung
caption: Volker Jung [de], president from 2009
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