| Type: | Bishop |
| Honorific-Prefix: | The Right Reverend |
| Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt | |
| Bishop of Northern Germany | |
| Church: | Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany |
| Appointed: | 2019 |
| Predecessor: | Gerhard Ulrich |
| Ordination: | 1995 |
| Consecration: | 1 April 2019 |
| Consecrated By: | Gerhard Ulrich |
| Birth Date: | 24 September 1964 |
| Birth Place: | Braunschweig, Germany |
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| Spouse: | Güntzel Schmidt |
| Children: | 1 |
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Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt (born 1964) is a German Lutheran bishop.[1]
Kühnbaum-Schmidt was born in Braunschweig. She studied Lutheran evangelical theology at University of Göttingen and at Kirchliche Hochschule Berlin.[2]
She was ordained in Braunschweig in 1995, and served as a pastor of the parish of Wichern and in the Propstei pastorate for public relations. From 2009, Kühnbaum-Schmidt also worked as a pastoral psychological consultant and supervisor for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig and as a lecturer for pastoral care.
In 2013, Kühnbaum-Schmidt was elected regional bishop of the Meiningen-Suhl provost in the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM). On September 27, 2018, the synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany elected her as presiding bishop (Landesbischöfin), and she took over the position on April 1, 2019.
In December 2018, Kühnbaum-Schmidt was elected deputy chair of the German National Committee of the Lutheran World Federation (DNK / LWF). On November 7, 2019, the Bishops' Conference of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany (VELKD) elected her as Deputy Leading Bishop.
auch in: Transformationen 13 (2010/11)