General Diocese of Hoya-Diepholz
The general diocese of Hoya-Diepholz was an ecclesiastical management and supervisory district in the area of today's Evangelical Lutheran regional church of Hanover .
It was built in 1743 for the area of the counties Hoya and Diepholz . The office holders were members of the consistory in Hanover who kept their official seat there. They were mostly pastors at the Schlosskirche or Neustädter Church in Hanover.
In 1885 the general diocese was expanded to include the district of Osnabrück and has since been referred to as the general diocese of Osnabrück-Hoya-Diepholz . In 1903 it was dissolved. Most of the area came to the general superintendent of Stade, the Nienburg and Stolzenau inspections to the general superintendent of Hanover.
When the regional church was reorganized under Regional Bishop August Marahrens in 1936, the area of the former General Diocese was assigned to the Verden-Hoya and Osnabrück-Diepholz districts.
General superintendent
- 1743–1746: Heinrich Eberhard König
- 1746–1758: Laurentius Hagemann
- 1758–1762: Gabriel Wilhelm Goetten
- 1762–1774: Georg Heinrich Riebow
- 1775–1781: Wilhelm Lesemann
- 1781–1787: Johann Adolf Schlegel
- 1788–1791: Johann Benjamin Koppe
- 1791–1793: Gottfried Less
- 1794–1798: August Georg Uhle
- 1798–1804: Heinrich Philipp Sextro
- 1805–1816: Johann Gericke
- 1816–1840: Achaz Holscher
- 1841–1868: Friedrich Leopold
- 1871–1881: Friedrich Eickenrodt
- 1882–1885: Georg Kahle
- 1885–1900: Friedrich Düsterdieck
- 1901–1902: Philipp Meyer
literature
- Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 411.