Alfred Tooming

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Alfred Tooming (up to Estnisierung of surnames 1935 Alfred Toming ; born June 22, jul. / 5. July  1907 greg. In the yard Idu, village Ülejõe, community Anija , Harju , Estonia , †  5. October 1977 in Tallinn ) was an Evangelical Lutheran Estonian clergyman. Tooming was Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church (EELK) from 1967 to 1977 .

Life

Alfred Tooming was born the seventh of nine children to a farmer. He attended school in Kehra before moving to high school in Tallinn in 1919.

Alfred Tooming studied theology at the University of Tartu from 1927 to 1932 . From 1935 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1949 he was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Harju-Jaani (German Sankt Johannis ) and from 1946 to 1949 of the parish of Jõelähtme ( Jegelecht ). From July 1941 to November 1945 he had to do military service in the Red Army during the Second World War .

From 1949 to 1967 Tooming led the Paulus congregation in Viljandi ( Fellin ) and from 1949 to 1952 the local Johannes congregation. From 1949 to 1967 Tooming was provost of Viljandi. From 1954 to 1967 he was also assessor of the consistory of the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church ( Eesti Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik , EELK). He was a member of the Christian Peace Conference (CFK), at whose IV All-Christian Peace Assembly he took part in Prague in 1971 .

From 1967 until his death in 1977 Tooming was the successor to Jaan Kiivit senior (1906-1971) Archbishop of the EELK ( Eesti Evangeelne Luterlik Kirik , EELK). In 1968 the EELK consistory published a document in which it approved the invasion of Warsaw Pact troops to put down the Prague Spring . His successor in the office of archbishop was Edgar Hark . Alfred Tooming is buried in the forest cemetery ( metsakalmistu ) in Tallinn.

Private life

Alfred Tooming married the Estonian Senta Kikerpill (1912–1982) in 1935. The couple had four children.

Web links

  • CV (Estonian)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eesti elulood . Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, Tallinn 2000, ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 542 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14)
  2. ↑ Hartmut Lehmann: In the machinery of "real existing socialism". Wallstein Verlag, 2003, ISBN 978-3-89244-667-5 , p. 72. Restricted preview in the Google book search
personal data
SURNAME Tooming, Alfred
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Toming, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian Evangelical Lutheran clergyman; Archbishop of the EELK (1967–1977)
DATE OF BIRTH July 5, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH Idu Farm, Ülejõe Village, Anija Parish , Harju County , Estonia Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH 5th October 1977
Place of death Tallinn , Estonian SSR, Soviet Union