The network’s new program of events for the first half of 2026 is now available! Exciting familiar and new events invite you to participate, either on site in Brockhagen or virtually. The date and location for our annual meeting have also been finalized.
On December 6, 2025, the traditional Advent singing took place in the Brockhagen Archive. The archive choir, flute ensemble, and other performers put together a varied program in the well-filled lecture hall.
As part of our annual meeting in 2025, various speakers presented a range of materials, some of which were quite extensive. Some of the presentations and documents are now available for download on our website.
On October 5, 2025, the 15th general meeting of the Apostolic History Network (Netzwerk Apostolische Geschichte e.V.) was held at the New Apostolic Church in Mannheim-Moselstraße. The agenda included a wide range of topics.
The eighteenth annual meeting of the Apostolic History Network took place over the long weekend from October 3 to 5, 2025, in Bensheim and Mannheim. With over 40 interested participants, the number of attendees had grown significantly compared to last year. The conference focused on the history and development of the Christians of Our Time community, which emerged in 1949 from the former New Apostolic Church district of Worms.
Around ten participants met last Saturday, September 13, 2025, at the Brockhagen Archive. For the first time, we were able to offer a full-day course there, which provided a condensed introduction to the history of the Apostolic Churches.
On September 13, 2025, we will be offering a new format at the Brockhagen Archive—a full-day event entitled “Introduction to Apostolic Church History.” This day offers a structured introduction to the history of the Catholic Apostolic movement and the communities that emerged from it. It is therefore a “crash course” that aims to summarize the most important aspects of apostolic history from its beginnings in the 1820s and 1830s to the present day.
In Bielefeld, the New Apostolic Church owns a historic church building in the Schildesche district dating from 1688, formerly a Roman Catholic church called Johanneskapelle. From 1950 onwards, the New Apostolic congregation of Schildesche used the building for its services until the congregation was dissolved in March 2025.
On Friday, July 18, 2025, Manfred Dorowski and Toni Bausen visited the archive for the second time, after having already handed over a special archive donation on the history of the Social and Educational Working Group for the NAC on April 25.
This year, the Apostolic History Network cordially invites you to the annual conference on church history in Bensheim and Mannheim. The eighteenth annual meeting on the church history of the apostolic communities will take place there from October 2 to 5, 2025. The conference will be held at the New Apostolic churches in Bensheim and Mannheim, as well as at the Institute for Denominational Studies in Bensheim. The main topic of the meeting will be the Community of Christians of Our Time, which was formed in 1949 from the former district of Worms of the New Apostolic Church and existed until 2002.