General Diocese of Lüneburg-Celle

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Stadtkirche St. Marien in Celle, the sermon church of the general superintendent

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

It was built in 1531 with the appointment of the reformer Urbanus Rhegius as superintendent of the Lüneburg regional church based in Celle . The title of general superintendent for the incumbent was introduced later, however. The general superintendents were the owners of the first pastoral position at the town church in Celle. You were a member of the consistory in Celle and after its abolition (1705) of the consistory in Hanover.

At the beginning of the 18th century, part of the area went to the newly founded General Diocese of Harburg (Harburg, Lüchow, Bardowick, Dannenberg, Fallersleben and Klötze).

In 1903 the General Diocese of Lüneburg-Celle was incorporated into the newly founded General Diocese of Hanover .

During the reorganization of the church administration under Regional Bishop August Marahrens in 1936, the district of Celle was formed as the successor to the former General Diocese.

General superintendent

literature

  • Philipp Meyer : The pastors of the regional churches of Hanover and Schaumburg-Lippes since the Reformation , Volume 1, Göttingen 1941, p. 159.