Antoine Pfeiffer
French pastor
Antoine Pfeiffer (27 February 1940 – 25 February 2021) was a French reformist pastor. He served as President of the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine from 1988 to 2000 and was a member of the Communauté d'Églises en mission.
Biography
Born in Périgueux, Pfeiffer's family evacuated to the south of France just before World War II. He was the son of accountant Germain Pfeiffer and Marguerite Brunner. His family returned to Alsace after the war and he studied in Saint-Louis and Mulhouse. He then became a Sunday school teacher and organized summer camps. He also took classes for laypeople at the Faculté de théologie protestante de Strasbourg, where he obtained a certificate in theology in 1964. He became a trainee pastor at the Église réformée du Bouclier in 1968 before becoming a pastor at the Église réformée de Bischwiller. He became head pastor of the Église réformée du Bouclier in 1976.
In 1982, Pfeiffer was elected to the executive council of the Protestant Reformed Church of Alsace and Lorraine. He then succeeded Thérèse Klipffel as president in 1988, serving four terms until 2000.
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