sentences:  He is a member of the EKD Council of the Protestant Church in Germany, since 1999 "Landesbischof" (bishop) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria and from 2005 leading bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church of Germany.Friedrich worked on a Lutheran/Catholic Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification (JD) and supports the Christian–Islamic dialogue in order to cause the Christian–Islamic understanding.In 2011 Friedrich was succeeded as bishop of the ELCB by Heinrich Bedford-Strohm.