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Ondrej Prostredník | |
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| Born | (1963-05-11)11 May 1963 (age 62) |
| Party | Progressive Slovakia |
| Education | Comenius University University of Leipzig |
| Occupation | Politician, theologian, educator, evangelical pastor |
Ondrej Prostredník (born 11 May 1963) is a Slovakevangelical priest, theologian, university lecturer and politician. He is member of theProgressive Slovakia party. Since 2023, he has served as an MP of theNational Council of Slovakia.[1]
Ondrej Prostredník was born on 11 May 1963 inBánovce nad Bebravou,Czechoslovakia.[2] From 1982 to 1987 he studied at theEvangelical Divinity Faculty of Comenius University in Bratislava. The academic year 1985/86 he graduated from the Faculty of Theology at theLeipzig University in the thenGerman Democratic Republic. In 1992 he spent one semester at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia, United States.
In 1987–1989 he worked as a clergyman, first as a chaplain in the evangelical church congregation inPliešovce and in 1989–1995 as an evangelical pastor inNitra. In 1995–1999 he worked in theLutheran World Federation in Geneva in the field of strengthening the participation of young people in decision-making processes in the church. After returning from abroad, he was for three years (1999–2002) a minister for evangelical theology students in Bratislava. From 2002 to 2007 he was the Secretary General of the Ecumenical Council of Churches in the Slovak Republic. He studied for his doctorate from 2000 to 2005, and his dissertation was titled "The Church as Koinonia in Paul".[3] In 2015, he habilitated with the topic "The Church as Charismatic Community according to 1K 12".[3] From 2007 to 2011, he was theDean of theEvangelical Divinity Faculty.[4]
At the Evangelical Divinity School, he taught in the Department of the New Testament. Among the pedagogical topics he taught: Greek (koine), New Testament Bible Study, New Testament Ethics, New Testament Exegesis – Synoptic Gospels, The Life of Jesus, New Testament Theology – The Theology of Jesus.[3] He also worked on the project "Prevention of Xenophobia and Anti-Semitism in the Church Setting".[5] He was also involved in ecumenical and interreligious dialogue. Since 2018, he has been a missionary worker of the Evangelical congregation in Bratislava's Old Town.[6]
Since 2018, he has been a member of the left-liberal partyProgressive Slovakia.[7] On the social network Facebook, he runs the platform Progresívni veriaci.[8] In January 2019, Prostredník was presented as the party's candidate in thePS-SPOLU coalition for the2019 elections to the European Parliament.[9] He ran from eighth place on the candidate list, finished ninth with 12 965 preferential votes, and did not win a seat in the European Parliament.[10]
In the February2020 parliamentary elections, he stood as the 36th candidate on the PS/SPOLU coalition's list of candidates.[11] He received 7,217 votes in the election, and after taking into account the preferential votes, he came 19th on the list of candidates. Due to the coalition's result, he did not get into the parliament. At the assembly of the Progressive Slovakia movement on 6 June 2020, he was elected as a member of its presidium.[12]
In the 2022 municipal elections, he ran for the SaS/PS coalition and won a seat on the Pezinok City Council.[13][14]
He is married and has three children with his wife Edita. He lives inPezinok.[7]
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