Deanery Gera
The Gera deanery is a deanery of the Roman Catholic diocese of Dresden-Meißen .
It includes ten parishes in the East Thuringian part of the diocese with around 9400 Catholics. When the dean's offices were restructured in 2002, the Altenburg dean's office was integrated into the Gera dean's office.
Dean is the pastor of the parish of St. Elisabeth Gera.
Parishes with associated church buildings
Parish | Patronage | Catholics | Community of responsibility | Parish church | Branch churches and chapels | Image of the parish church |
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Altenburg | Appearance of the Lord | 1638 | VG Altenburg-Rositz | Apparition of Mr. Altenburg | Maria Immaculate Conception Schmölln | |
Bad Lobenstein | Christ King | 1022 | VG Greiz-Bad Lobenstein-Zeulenroda | Christ-König-Church Bad Lobenstein | St. Paulus Schleiz | |
Eisenberg | Annunciation | 565 | VG Gera | Annunciation Eisenberg (former Gottesackerkirche) | St. Marienkapelle Eisenberg | |
Gera | St. Elisabeth | 2096 | VG Gera | St. Elisabeth Gera | St. Jakobus Gera-Langenberg, Maria Birth Ronneburg | |
Gera-South | St. Maximilian Kolbe | 720 | VG Gera | Maximilian Kolbe Church Gera-Lusan | Edith Stein Chapel Gera-Lusan | |
Greiz | Heart of jesus | 1098 | VG Greiz-Bad Lobenstein-Zeulenroda | Herz-Jesu-Kirche Greiz | ||
Hermsdorf | St. Joseph | 489 | VG Gera | St. Josef Hermsdorf | ||
Rositz | Mother of God of Mount Carmel | 591 | VG Altenberg-Rositz | Church of the Mother of God from Mount Karmel Rositz | St. Joseph the worker Lucka, St. Elisabeth Meuselwitz | |
Stadtroda-Kahla | Holy Spirit | 650 | VG Gera | St. Jakobus Stadtroda | St. Nicholas Kahla | |
Zeulenroda shoot | Holy Family | 492 | VG Greiz-Bad Lobenstein-Zeulenroda | Holy Family Church in Zeulenroda |
Pastoral exploration process
As part of the pastoral exploration process, several parishes came together to form communities of responsibility. These communities of responsibility are to merge to form new parishes by 2021.