Rome (NEV), May 16, 2017 – From 10 to 16 May 2017, the 12th Assembly of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) took place in Windhoek, Namibia’s Capital. Cordelia Vitiello represented Italy as vice-president and member of the Consistory of the Lutheran Evangelical Church in Italy (CELI).
On May 13th, she was elected as one of the 48 members of the new executive Council of the LWF. “This task – she declared – is an honor and a responsibility for me, and I’ll try to keep it with commitment and seriousness”. Cordelia Vitiello, of German mother, is a member of the Lutheran congregation of Naples and has various ecclesiastical offices. She is, among other things, CELI’s referent for the relations with the United Lutheran Evangelical Church in Germany (VELKD); vice-president of the Evangelical Bethany Foundation of Naples; president of the Auditors’ College of the Federation of Protestant Churches in Italy (FCEI).
The Executive Council is the body that will support the new president of LWF, the Nigerian Musa Panti Filibus, during the six years of his mandate and is elected to ensure a balance of representation between pastors and lay people, men and women, young and old people, as well as between geographical origins. In particular, Vitiello was elected among the representatives of Central and Western Europe, one of the seven areas in which LWF is subdivided.
Vitiello is the second CELI’s representative to become part of the LWF Council, after Birgit Kelm
who kept this office from 1990 to 1997.
