Diocese of Haderslev

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The Diocese of Hadersleben (Danish: Haderlevs Stift ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the (Lutheran) Danish People's Church . Its seat is Haderslev (Hadersleben), its area includes the eastern part of Syd- and Sønderjylland with the seven provosts Vejle , Kolding , Fredericia , Hadersleben, Apenrade , Sonderburg and in the far north Hedensted .

The Marienkirche in Hadersleben has served as the cathedral since 1924 .

organization

As is customary in the Danish People's Church, the leadership of the diocese ( stiftsøvrighed ) is jointly exercised by a bishop and a state-appointed administrative director ( stiftsamtmand ). Marianne Christiansen has been bishop since 2013 . As stiftsamtmand acted 2013-2018 Bright Haxgart, director of Statsforvaltningen . The spiritual supervision is carried out by the diocese council ( stiftsråd ), which consists of the bishop, the cathedral provost, another provost, three representatives of the pastors and one representative from each of the parishes from the seven provosts.

The diocese comprises 173 parishes, in which 380,756 members lived on January 1, 2020, about 80 percent of the population. 208 pastors work in the congregations. The parishes of the Danish Church in South Schleswig with their own provost in Flensburg are also subject to the spiritual supervision of the diocese, but are organized as a synod .

history

Through the referendum in 1920 , the North Schleswig district of Hadersleben , which had belonged to Prussia since 1867, came back to Denmark. Ecclesiastically, the area had previously belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein and, in Danish times, to the diocese of Schleswig . In order to reintegrate it into the Danish state, the new diocese was established by a church law of June 30, 1920, to which the dioceses of Ribe and Aarhus had to give up parishes, so that its area now protruded beyond the old border of the Duchy of Schleswig . The area of ​​the district of Tondern , which has also been Prussian since 1867 , was integrated into the diocese of Ribe in accordance with its earlier church affiliation. The first bishop, the noted ecumenist Valdemar Ammundsen , was instituted on February 23, 1923.

For the German minority, German-speaking parish offices were set up as early as 1920 in the four municipalities of Aabenraa (Aabenraa), Haderslev, Sønderborg ( Sønderborg ) and Tønder (Tondern). In rural areas, however, German-speaking church supplies were only granted very restrictively. Members of the minority therefore founded the North Schleswig community in 1923 , which was organized as a free church under Danish law , but was spiritually subordinate to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schleswig-Holstein (today the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ). Your pastors form a joint convention with the pastors of the German municipalities.

In 2007 parishes from the dissolved Tørninglen Provostry were incorporated from the Ribe diocese into the Haderslev diocese.

List of the bishops of the Haderslev diocese

literature

  • Christian de Fine Licht: Haderslev Stift 1922–1997. In: Haderslev Stiftsbog 32, 1997, pp. 9–40.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tal og fakta haderslevstift.dk, accessed on August 3, 2020.