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Robert Bilheimer
Christian Century, Jan 23, 2007
Robert Bilheimer, a Presbyterian minister who helped organize the first meeting of the World Council of Churches and led opposition to the Vietnam War and apartheid in South Africa, died December 17 at age 89 in Canandaigua, New York. Bilheimer was among the organizers of the first meeting in 1948 of the WCC, the international ecumenical organization that emerged out of World War II.
He became an associate general secretary of the council in 1960 and was a leader in the effort by the WCC to declare apartheid--South Africa's system of racial separation--a sin. He was credited with helping turn South African theologian C. F. Beyers Nande into a staunch opponent of apartheid. "Bob Bilheimer, who called himself an 'ecumenical engineer,' was both an organizational genius and an inveterate provider and provoker of thought," said a spokesperson for the Minnesota-based Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research, of which Bilheimer had been executive director from 1974 to his retirement in 1984. Though Bilheimer was senior minister at a Presbyterian church in Rochester, New York, from 1963 to 1966, he soon returned to the ecumenical movement as international affairs director of the National Council of Churches.
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