Honorary doctorate for Konrad Raiser

 

Konrad Raiser, former general secretary of the World Council of Churches (1993-2003), was awarded an honorary doctor's degree by the University of Hamburg's faculty of evangelical theology on 18 January. The title recognizes Raiser's contributions in sharpening the theological profile of the WCC and the momentum he has more than once given to the ecumenical movement as a whole and to the ecumenical awareness of German churches in particular.

 

Currently Konrad Raiser is serving the WCC as co-ordinator of the international drafting group working on a draft Ecumenical Declaration on Just Peace that will be submitted to the International Ecumenical Peace Convocation in Jamaica in May 2011.

 

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