Bella Italia: divine services in Rome and Milano
At the end of November, Chief Apostle Jean-Luc Schneider visited the brothers and sisters in Italy and conducted two divine services in Rome and Milan.
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Rome
Photo: Jessica Krämer
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
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divine service in Milan
Photo: CNA Italia
On Saturday, 28 November 2015, the Chief Apostle celebrated a divine service in Rome and a day later in Milan. He was accompanied by the Apostles Franz-Wilhelm Otten and Jens Lindemann from Germany.
The New Apostolic Church in Italy has a membership of 2,138, of which 95 are ministers. There are fifty congregations in the country. The distances between the congregations range from a few kilometres to 150 kilometres. Responsible for the New Apostolic Church in Italy is the District Church of Switzerland under the leadership of District Apostle Markus Fehlbaum. Italy’s population is about 60 million, and about 80 per cent are Roman Catholic: 50 million people.
The history of the New Apostolic Church in Italy is still young. Following a short stay in Lugano, District Elder Giovanni Plüss from Langenthal in Switzerland moved to Italy in 1952. He began to establish a New Apostolic congregation in Rome upon request of District Apostle Eschmann. The first divine services were celebrated in a private home on the Via Egidio Albornoz. Additional congregations were founded and grew slowly in Bolzano, Merano, Varese, Turin, and Milan. Congregations followed in Trento, Parma, and Piombino Dese. District Apostle Richard Fehr dedicated the first church building of the New Apostolic Church in Rome at Via Bartolomeo Bulgari 10, in the Giardinetti district, on December 1, 1985.
For more information on the New Apostolic Church in Italy go to the following link: chronicle of the New Apostolic Church Switzerland.