Eckhard Gorka

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Eckhard Gorka

Eckhard Gorka (born May 24, 1955 in Braunschweig ) is a Lutheran theologian and regional bishop of the Hildesheim-Göttingen district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover and abbot of the Amelungsborn monastery .

Career

Eckhard Gorka graduated from high school in Hanover and studied Protestant theology and newspaper studies at the Universities of Göttingen and Munich . In 1981 he became vicar in the Ev.-luth. Matthias parish in Jork in the old country and was then parish priest there.

In 1988 Gorka took over the management of the information and press office of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Hanover , before he became pastor at the Johanniskirche in Soltau and superintendent of the Soltau parish in 1993 .

In 2000 Eckhard Gorka was appointed state superintendent for the former district of Hildesheim of the Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover. On September 28, 2002 he also took over the post of abbot of the Cistercian monastery Amelungsborn . He is the 58th abbot in the history of the monastery. After the amalgamation of the Hildesheim and Göttingen districts , he became state superintendent on July 1, 2007 in the newly formed Hildesheim-Göttingen district , based in Hildesheim . Since the new church constitution came into force, he has been given the new official title of regional bishop .

Gorka's first wife Annette died in 2008; the couple have three children together. In 2010 Gorka married the pastor Marianne Engwicht.

Other functions

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Individual evidence

  1. On the person , in: Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung of June 30, 2010, p. 5