Johannes Friedrich (20 June 1948 â 3 September 2025) was a German Lutheran theologian and bishop.
Friedrich studied theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and the University of Tübingen. He was a reverend in Nuremberg, a campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, and provost at the Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem. In October 2009 he was elected as a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany. Since 1999 he was Landesbischof (bishop) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, and in November 2005 he became the leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany. In 2000, Friedrich worked on a Lutheran/Catholic joint declaration on the Doctrine of Justification. He supported dialogue in order to foster ChristianâÂÂIslamic understanding. Friedrich was a member of the Deloitte Germany Advisory Board. Friedrich died on 3 September 2025, at the age of 77.