Hans-Jörg Voigt

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Bishop Hans-Jörg Voigt

Hans-Jörg Voigt (born June 7, 1962 in Dresden ) is Bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK) and Chairman of the International Lutheran Council .

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Bishop Voigt was born on June 7, 1962 in Dresden and received Holy Baptism in the Evangelical Lutheran Trinity Church in Dresden . He studied Protestant theology in Leipzig, Berlin and Oberursel. He served his vicariate from 1989 to 1991 in the Evangelical Lutheran Kreuzkirche Cottbus .

He was consecrated to the Holy Office of the Church ( ordination ) on December 15, 1991 in the Kreuzkirche in Cottbus. Since then he has been the parish pastor of the old Lutheran parish of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of St. Otto von Bamberg in Greifswald . On February 11, 2006, he was elected Bishop of the SELK by the Church Synod. This term of office was limited to 12 years. Its introduction took place on June 24, 2006 ( St. John's Day ) in the garden church of St. Marien in Hanover . On April 19, 2018, he was re-elected as bishop at the Synod of the Special Church in the Kreuzgemeinde Stadthagen. His term of office is unlimited. The religious service confirmation took place on May 27, 2018 as part of the 9th Lutheran Church Congress of the SELK in Erfurt. The Concordia Lutheran Seminary of Lutheran Church Canada , founded in 1984, awarded Bishop Voigt an honorary doctorate on May 30, 2014 . His advocacy for the traditional image of the family and the protection of unborn life is given as the reason for being awarded the honorary doctorate. His pastoral letter , “Discovering marriage and the family as a gift from God”, from 2013 had an impact in the context of ecumenism far beyond the realm of his own church. The Protestant news agency Idea named him “Bishop of the Year 2013”. On March 29, 2014, Bishop Voigt received an “assignment of respect” from the working group of Christian journalists from the hands of the Coptic Orthodox Bishop General in Germany, Anba Damian , also for his commitment to the biblical image of the family and his advocacy for the protection of life. Voigt is with Christiane Voigt, geb. Junker, married. You have four children.

Previous cross-community tasks

Bishop Voigt works on the editorial team of the monthly magazine "Lutherische Kirche". In 1999 he was elected to the district advisory board of the Berlin-Brandenburg church district , of which he was superintendent from 2001 to 2003. From 2003 to 2006 he was head of the Practical Theological Seminar for the training of vicars and parish vicars and chairman of the examination committee for the 2nd theological exam (examen pro ministerio). Since 2010 he has been interim chairman and since September 20, 2012 regular chairman of the International Lutheran Council . He is also a lecturer in pastoral care and psychotherapy at the Lutheran Theological University in Oberursel .

Ecumenism

Bishop Voigt was the representative of the SELK in the Working Group of Christian Churches (ACK) in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania and spokesman for the ACK in Greifswald. As a representative of the old confessional churches , he was elected to the current federal executive committee of the Working Group of Christian Churches in Germany.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Christians of 2013. In: Idea. December 18, 2013, accessed on August 4, 2018 (German).
  2. ↑ webkorn.de: Lecturer. In: lthh.de. Retrieved October 21, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Voigt, Hans-Jörg
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman, bishop of the Independent Evangelical Lutheran Church (SELK)
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden