General Diocese of Calenberg

The general diocese of Calenberg was an ecclesiastical supervisory district in the area of ​​today's Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .

It was established in 1589. The official seat of the general superintendent initially changed and was only permanently in Hanover from 1726 . The office holders had been members of the consistory in Hanover since 1650 . In 1903 the General Diocese was dissolved and incorporated into the newly founded General Diocese of Hanover .

General superintendent

• 1589–1593: Heinrich Boethius
• 1593–1606: Heinrich Papenburger
• 1608–1620: Johann Sötefleisch the Elder
• 1620–1632: Joachimlesenberg
• 1633–1650: Ludolf Heise
• 1650–1673: Justus Gesenius
• 1674–1680: Gerhard Wolter Molanus
• 1680–1694: Hermann Barkhaus
• 1695-1708: Polycarp Lyser
• 1708–1726: Philipp Ludwig Böhmer
• 1726–1741: Balthasar Mentzer
• 1742–1758: David Wilhelm Erythropel
• 1758–1762: Laurentius Hagemann
• 1762–1781: Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten
• 1781–1787: Wilhelm Lesemann
• 1787–1793: Johann Adolf Schlegel
• 1793–1797: Gottfried Less
• 1798–1804: August Georg Uhle
• 1805–1838: Heinrich Philipp Sextro
• 1838–1854: Friedrich Brandis
• 1854–1884: Eduard Niemann
• 1884–1903: Carl Schuster

literature

• Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 410f.