Johannes Friedrich is German Lutheran theologian and was a German Lutheran bishop.
Education
Johannes Friedrich studied theology at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and at the University of Tübingen, was reverend in Nuremberg, campus minister at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and German Lutheran Provost at Redeemer Church in Jerusalem.
Career
Friedrich has worked on a Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (Juris Doctor) and supports the Christian-Islamic dialogue in order to cause the Christian-Islamic understanding. In 2011 he was succeeded as bishop of the ELCB by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm.