The Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visits DPCU

On 17 September 2024, the Centro Melantone Ecumenical Summer Course visited the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity (DPCU). The participants from Germany and Austria were accompanied by Professor Dr Friedrike Nüssel, Director of the Ecumenical Institute at the University of Heidelberg, and Reverend Pastor Patrick Spitzenberger, the new Director of the Centro Melantone in Rome.

Father Dr Augustinus Sander OSB, Official of the DPCU, responsible for relations with the Lutherans, provided information on current topics of Catholic-Lutheran dialogue.

Centro Melantone is the ecumenical study centre founded in 2002 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Italy (CELI) and the Valdese Faculty of Theology. The Centre aims to be a platform for evangelical theologians from all over Europe who wish to study more closely the many facets of Christianity in the city of Rome.