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Place of Birth: Spandau, Berlin, Germany
About Carsten Rentzing
- Carsten Rentzing, born September 27, 1967, is a German protestant theologian.
- He is a bishop of the Evangelical-Lutheran Church of Saxony.
- In 1987, Rentzing graduated from the Free University of Berlin with a degree in law and philosophy, before undertaking postgraduate studies in protestant theology in Berlin, Frankfurt am Main and at the Lutheran Seminary, Oberursel.
- From 1989 until 1992, Rentzing edited the far-right magazine, Fragmente.
- In 1992 he joined the Alten Prager Landsmannschaft Hercynia, a Frankfurt pflichtschlagenden (Academic fencing student association), which is part of the Coburger Convent.
- As of October 2019, he is still a member of this association.
- From 1997 until 1999, he was curate at the congregation in Zwota and Oelsnitz, Vogtland.
- In 1999, he attained his second degree in Dresden and was ordained as a regular priest for the congregation in Annaberg-Buchholz (Ore Mountains). Since early years Rentzing is stating conservative and theological controversies discussed positions regarding church, gospel, politics and society.
- In 1991 he wrote in a recension: the by the Church-proclaimed Christian truth exists independently of the world and can only be appropriated by the church.
- So called Feierabendmahle on Protestant Kirchentage are signs of near doomsday and heresy.In 2015, the synod of his church elected him a bishop in the sixth ballot.
- A lot of members were against his conservative opinions.
- He rejected gay marriage and was against gay pastors who live together.
- Protesters in his own church criticized him for his tolerance of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD).In October 2019, he said he would step down from the post of bishop within a year.
- This followed a debate about his relationship with far-right positions and connected groups and parties.
- The AfD in the Saxon Landtag sees Carsten Rentzing exposed to a "hate campaign" and shows solidarity with him.
- They said, Rentzing had preserved "the traditions of Christianity and has refused to take the left-green course of the Evangelical Church in Germany for years" said Jörg Urban AfD Landtag member.
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