Arend de Vries

Arend de Vries (born September 22, 1954 in Berumerfehn ) is a German Protestant theologian . Since November 1st, 2006 he has been the spiritual vice-president of the Hanover regional church office of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

Life

After studying Protestant theology in Wuppertal and Tübingen and the first theological exam in 1982, de Vries completed his vicariate in Pattensen and in the Rotenburg (Wümme) seminary . In 1985 he was in Ostrhauderfehn ordained and was there until 1993, church pastor. He then moved to Hanover , where he became state youth pastor and managing director of the state youth pastor's office in the Office for Community Service (today: House of Church Services ). In October 1999 he was appointed state superintendent of the now dissolved district of Calenberg-Hoya by the church senate and took office in March 2000. In 2006 he was appointed spiritual vice-president of the regional church office in Hanover by the church senate and took office on November 1, 2006. In this position he is Head of Department 2; Theology and community, church fields of action, mission and ecumenism .

Further offices and memberships

Commissioner of the Hanoverian regional church for the Reformation anniversary 2017

Prior of the Loccum Monastery since 2008

2000–2006: Member of the Bishops' Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover.

2006–2020: Member of the Church Senate of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover.

Chairman of the Bishops Election Committee of the General Synod of the VELKD

Member of the church leadership of the VELKD

Member of the Bishops' Conference of the VELKD

Chairman of the board of trustees of the Diakonie umbrella foundation , consisting of the Diakoniewerk Stephansstift , Hanover, the Diakonische Heimen Kästorf, the Corneliuswerk Burg u. a., at the same time chairman of the board of trustees of the Stephansstift eV, the main committee of the foundation Diakonische Heime Kästorf, the foundation council of the foundation living and advising and the foundation council of the Evangelical foundation Clues.

Chairman of the supervisory board of the Association of Protestant Publishing (VEP) Lower Saxony and Bremen

until 2014: Chairman of the Theological Examination Office of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony .

Since 2006: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the House of Church Services

Since 2011: Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Social Science Institute of the EKD

Since 2001: Chairman of the board of the St. Martin Foundation in Nienburg / Weser

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Health Ethics at the Evangelical Academy Loccum

Member of the convention of the Evangelical Academy Loccum Evangelical Academy Loccum: Der Konvent

Born member of the Corvinus Foundation of the Loccum Academy

since 2016: Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Lower Saxony Pastoral College in Loccum.

Individual evidence

↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover : Arend de Vries new prior of the Loccum Monastery from 2008 (accessed on May 11, 2011)

↑ http://www.landeskirche-hannovers.de/evlka-de/wir-ueber-uns/kirchensenat

^ Committees of the 11th General Synod of the VELKD

↑ Church leadership of the VELKD (PDF file)

^ Members of the Bishops' Conference

↑ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover : Arend de Vries is the new chairman of the supervisory board of the Association of Evangelical Journalism (accessed on May 11, 2011)

↑ Ecclesiastical gazette for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover from March 30, 2007 ( Memento of the original from February 13, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , P. 62 (PDF file). @1@ 2