Assistant preacher
Assistant preacher is an outdated official or service title in Protestant regional churches in the German-speaking area. There are two different meanings:
In some regional churches, honorary predicants were called that, see there.
In other regional churches, especially in the area of the former church of the Old Prussian Union , but also in the Bremen Evangelical Church and in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg , assistant preacher (later: "Pastor in the auxiliary service") was the official title for a candidate for the pastoral office who, after the vicariate and the second theological exam , was assigned to a parish, provisionally and without election by the governing body of the parish, as a preacher and pastor, often also as a parish administrator. The assistant preaching time was limited in time and ended with the election of pastor for this or another congregation. Ordination usually fell in the first phase of this period . The assistant preacher corresponded to the assessor in the civil service career . With this meaning, the title was everywhere replaced by pastor / pastor for employment towards the end of the 20th century .
Individual evidence
- ↑ St. Gallen: preacher instead of assistant preacher (reformiert-online.net, November 20, 2003)
- ↑ Wolfgang Strietzel: The disciplinary law of the German Protestant regional churches and their associations. Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen 1988, pp. 67-69.