The Rev. John H. Thomas was the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant Christian denomination. Elected in 1999, he served as one of five officers of the UCC who comprise the Collegium of Officers, which oversees national ministries. As General Minister and President, Thomas was the premier spokesperson for the United Church of Christ, officially representing the UCC in ecumenical and interfaith relations. His term ended in October 2009.
| Property |
Value |
| dbo:abstract |
The Rev. John H. Thomas was the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant Christian denomination. Elected in 1999, he served as one of five officers of the UCC who comprise the Collegium of Officers, which oversees national ministries. As General Minister and President, Thomas was the premier spokesperson for the United Church of Christ, officially representing the UCC in ecumenical and interfaith relations. His term ended in October 2009. Chicago Theological Seminary has appointed Thomas as a senior adviser to the president and visiting professor in church ministries, effective January 1, 2010. Prior to his work as General Minister and President of the UCC, Rev. Thomas was Pastor of the First United Church of Christ of Easton, PA, from 1982 to January 5, 1992, where he was respected and well liked. (en) |
| dbo:wikiPageExternalLink |
http://www.ucc.org/about-us/meet-our-officers.html https://web.archive.org/web/20091001163318/http:/www.reuters.com/article/pressRelease/idUS175312+20-May-2009+PRN20090520 https://web.archive.org/web/20100819024235/http:/www.ucc.org/news/collegium-underscores.html |
| dbo:wikiPageID |
22857266 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageLength |
1761 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger) |
| dbo:wikiPageRevisionID |
1090630115 (xsd:integer) |
| dbo:wikiPageWikiLink |
dbr:United_Church_of_Christ dbc:Living_people dbc:Year_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbr:Christianity dbr:Mainline_Protestant dbr:President_(corporate_title) dbc:American_Christian_theologians dbc:United_Church_of_Christ_ministers dbr:Chicago_Theological_Seminary |
| dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate |
dbt:Authority_control dbt:US-theologian-stub |
| dcterms:subject |
dbc:Living_people dbc:Year_of_birth_missing_(living_people) dbc:American_Christian_theologians dbc:United_Church_of_Christ_ministers |
| rdf:type |
owl:Thing yago:WikicatAmericanChristianTheologians yago:WikicatLivingPeople yago:Associate109816771 yago:CausalAgent100007347 yago:Colleague109935990 yago:Intellectual109621545 yago:LivingThing100004258 yago:Object100002684 yago:Organism100004475 yago:Peer109626238 yago:Person100007846 yago:PhysicalEntity100001930 yago:WikicatGuggenheimFellows yago:YagoLegalActor yago:YagoLegalActorGeo yago:Scholar110557854 yago:Theologian110705615 yago:Whole100003553 |
| rdfs:comment |
The Rev. John H. Thomas was the General Minister and President of the United Church of Christ (UCC), a mainline Protestant Christian denomination. Elected in 1999, he served as one of five officers of the UCC who comprise the Collegium of Officers, which oversees national ministries. As General Minister and President, Thomas was the premier spokesperson for the United Church of Christ, officially representing the UCC in ecumenical and interfaith relations. His term ended in October 2009. (en) |
| rdfs:label |
John H. Thomas (en) |
| owl:sameAs |
freebase:John H. Thomas yago-res:John H. Thomas wikidata:John H. Thomas https://global.dbpedia.org/id/4oj22 |
| prov:wasDerivedFrom |
wikipedia-en:John_H._Thomas?oldid=1090630115&ns=0 |
| foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf |
wikipedia-en:John_H._Thomas |
| is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of |
dbr:United_Church_of_Christ dbr:John_Thomas dbr:List_of_American_Physical_Society_Fellows_(1998–2010) dbr:List_of_Guggenheim_Fellowships_awarded_in_1993 dbr:Chicago_Theological_Seminary |
| is foaf:primaryTopic of |
wikipedia-en:John_H._Thomas |