Pastor Christina Schnepel
Director
Tel.: +49 69 976518-13
Pastor Christina Schnepel was born in Marburg and studied Protestant theology in Marburg, Basel and Hamburg. She spent a year studying in Rome. She was a parish pastor in Zierenberg and Burghasungen (Hofgeismar-Wolfhagen church district) and worked in the Liturgical Chamber of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck. She then spent six years as an EKD foreign pastor for the German-speaking Protestant community at the German Embassy in Moscow. After returning to Germany, she spent two years as a commissioner for refugees and migration for the Protestant Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck at Diakonie Hessen before joining the Protestant Academy Hofgeismar as Director of Studies. She is currently a member of the Chamber for Mission and Ecumenism of the Kurhessen Regional Church. From November 2022 to February 2024, she worked at the Centre for Ecumenism of the Protestant Church in Hesse and Nassau (EKHN) and the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (EKKW) as a consultant for development and partnership in Europe and the USA as well as for advising, supporting and managing the Hesse-Nassau and Kurhessen campaign ‘Hope for Eastern Europe’.
Christina Schnepel has been the new director of the Ecumenical Centre since 1 March 2025. She took over from Detlev Knoche, who retired after many years of service.
