Bund für evangelisch-katholische Einheit

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Bund für evangelisch - katholische Wiedervereinigung e.V. (Eng. League for Evangelical-Catholic Reunion, today Bund für evangelisch-katholische Einheit, League for Evangelical-Catholic Unity) is a German Lutheran High Church organisation, founded 1960.

Bund für evangelisch - katholische Wiedervereinigung was founded for continuation of the Sammlung movement by some of its members under the leadership of Pastor Max Lackmann, who were not willing to work toward unity by a slow inward catholic renewal of the Protestant Church. Their alternative was to aim to set up of an ecclesiastical organization which would be the means of corporate reunion with Roman Catholic Church; the goal of the League has been to form a separate Lutheran Church, analogous to the Eastern Uniate Churches. This Church would have its own church order, canon law, liturgy, married clergy and catechism, but to the Roman Catholic Church, preserving everything legitimately Evangelical.

Since April 2004 the name has been Bund für evangelisch-katholische Einheit e.V.. Within the organisation works a confraternity, St. Jakobus- Bruderschaft. The cetre for both is the Hans-Asmussen-Haus in Dalherda near Fulda.

Similarly in Sweden, Förbundet För Kristen Enhet works for reunion of Church of Sweden and Roman Catholic Church.