Local Planning Group 2026
Three chaplaincies, the Diocese of Mainz, the Federal Association of the Catholic Church at Universities, the Protestant Church of Hessen and Nassau are happy to participate in this conference. The Catholic University Chaplaincy and the Protestant Chaplaincy of Mainz and Frankfurt and its colleagues are happy to offer facilities, rooms and court yards to hold a conference.
Members of the Local Planning Group
- Ilona Klemens, ESG Frankfurt
- Nele Magner, KHG Mainz
- Christine Schardt CEUC Chair
- Kerstin Söderblom, ESG Mainz
- Günther Sturms, IACHE Chair
Local Supporting Organizations
- Diocese of Mainz: Christine Schalk
- Bundesverband Katholische Kirche an Hochschulen: Dr. Lukas Rölli
- …to be completed soon!
Pan-European Strategy Group
- Jeremy Clines (Sheffield, England)
- Günther Sturms (Delft, Netherlands)
- …to be completed soon!
Executive Committee-International Associations of Chaplains in Higher Education
- Günther Sturms (IACHE Chair)
- …to be completed soon!
Conference Administration Team
- Christine Schardt Conference Facilitator
- … Conference Business
- … Operation Coordinator
- … Conference Support Worker
- …to be completed soon!
IACHE History
The International Association of Chaplains in Higher Education is an international multifaith professional association for chaplains in higher education. An international committee was first established as the planning committee for the first higher education chaplaincy Global Conference held in Vancouver in 2000. In planning towards the second Global Conference in Brisbane 2004, a new international committee was formed. This committee widened its charge and also began to work toward developing an international association. In preparation for the Global Conference in Finland in 2008, another international higher education chaplaincy committee was formed. In each of these instances, the members of the committees were representatives nominated by national and regional chaplaincy associations. An initial draft of a constitution for an international association was prepared by Erich Von Dietze, chair of the International Higher Education Chaplaincy Committee 2002 – 2006. The constitution which follows has been revised by members of subsequent international committees.
IACHE Constitution
The current IACHE constitution may be found here. The IACHE Executive Board revises this document from time to time to keep it current with changes in the field.
IACHE Executive Board
IACHE has an Executive Board that manages the affairs of the association. Its members are elected or nominated by its member associations or by the executive board itself. All executive board members are appointed for a period of 4 years (from one Global Conference through the next Global Conference). The chair, secretary and treasurer are the three officers of the executive board. Find all the executive board members on the official IACHE site.
Member Associations
The International Association of Chaplains in Higher Education has several member associations:
- Aotearoa New Zealand Tertiary Chaplaincy Association – ANZTCA
- Association for Chaplaincy and Spiritual Life in Higher Education (USA) – ACSLHE
- Conference of European University Chaplains – CEUC
- Tertiary Campus Ministry Association (Australia) – TCMA
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