Deanery Friedrichshafen

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Deanery Friedrichshafen
Diocese : Rottenburg-Stuttgart
Pastoral care units: 8th
Municipalities: 29 of them 2 native speaking communities
Believers: 54,000 (as of 2017)
Dean: Bernd Herbinger
Deputy Dean: Josef Scherer
Website: Website of the Dean's Office

The Friedrichshafen deanery is one of 25 deaneries in the Roman Catholic diocese of Rottenburg-Stuttgart . The seat is in Friedrichshafen .

geography

The area of ​​the deanery encloses the eastern part of the Lake Constance district with the communities: Friedrichshafen , Meckenbeuren , Tettnang , Oberteuringen , Langenargen , Eriskirch , Kressbronn am Bodensee and Neukirch . The Friedrichshafen dean's office borders on the Allgäu-Oberschwaben dean's office in the north, the Lindau dean's office (diocese of Augsburg) in the east , and the Linzgau dean's office ( archdiocese of Freiburg ) in the west . In the south, the deanery is delimited by Lake Constance . The deaneries of St. Gallen and Thurgau are located south of Lake Constance in the Swiss diocese of Basel .

structure

The Dean's Office is divided into eight pastoral care units and 29 parishes. With 53,979 Catholics, the deanery is predominantly Catholic. Bernd Herbinger has been the Dean of the Friedrichshafen Dean's Office since 2018.

Since the establishment of the deanery in 1972, Monsignor Robert Steeb, pastor of St. Nikolaus in Friedrichshafen, Monsignor Erich Legler, pastor of St. Columban in Friedrichshafen, Franz Scheffold, pastor of St. Martinus in Langenargen and St. Wendelinus in Oberdorf and from 2004 to 2018 Reinhard Hangst, pastor of the parishes in Argental the incumbent deans.

The pastoral care units are:

  • Friedrichshafen center
    (Parishes: St. Nikolaus, Croatian native-speaking parish Sv. Leopold Mandič, St. Columban, St. Petrus Canisius, Italian native-speaking parish Sta. Caterina da Siena)
  • Friedrichshafen North
    (Parishes: Mary's Birth, Friedrichshafen-Jettenhausen, St. Nikolaus, Friedrichshafen-Berg, For the Good Shepherd, Friedrichshafen- Löwental )
  • Friedrichshafen-West
    (Municipalities: St. Magnus, Friedrichshafen-Fischbach, St. Peter and Paul, Friedrichshafen-Schnetzenhausen)
  • Ailingen / Ettenkirch / Oberteuringen
    (Parishes: St. Johannes Baptist, Friedrichshafen-Ailingen, St. Petrus and Paulus, Friedrichshafen-Ettenkirch, St. Martinus, Oberteuringen)
  • Meckenbeuren
    (Municipalities: St. Maria, Meckenbeuren, St. Verena, Kehlen, St. Jakobus Maior, Brochenzell)
  • Maritime communities
    (Parishes: Mariä Himmelfahrt, Eriskirch, Zu Our Dear Lady, Mariabrunn, St. Martinus, Langenargen, St. Wendelinus, Oberdorf, St. Maria, Kressbronn, St. Gallus, Gattnau)
  • Argental
    (Parishes: St. Martinus, Goppertsweiler, St. Margaretha, Obereisenbach, St. Georg, Krumbach, St. Martinus, Tannau, St. Petrus and Paulus, Laimnau, St. Dionysius, Hiltensweiler, St. Maria, Neukirch, St. Georg , Wildpoltsweiler)
  • Tettnang
    (Municipality: St. Gallus)

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