Jens-Martin Kruse

Jens-Martin Kruse (born September 17, 1969 in Buchholz in the Nordheide ) is a German Evangelical Lutheran clergyman. Kruse became known nationwide for his ten years as pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran Christ Congregation in Rome and his commitment to ecumenical theological dialogue . Since February 1st, 2018 he has been the main pastor of the main church St. Petri in Hamburg .

Life

Jens-Martin Kruse comes from a pastor family. He is the son of Pastor Wilfried Kruse, who was senior pastor at the main church St. Petri in Hamburg from 1998 to 2002; the former Berlin bishop Martin Kruse and the church musician Helmut Kruse are his uncles. He grew up in his native Buchholz and in Hamburg. After graduating from high school in 1989 and doing community service , Kruse studied Protestant theology at the universities of Hamburg and Vienna from 1990 to 1996 . In 1996 he passed his first theological exam; In 2000 he was in Hamburg with a dissertation on the history of the Reformation on university theology and church reform. The beginnings of the Reformation in Wittenberg 1516–1522 as Dr. theol. PhD. After his vicariate in Reinbek and his second theological exam, he was ordained pastor on March 24, 2002 in the Schleswig Cathedral . This was followed by an international vicariate of the EKD with vacancy representation at the Evangelical Lutheran parish Rome 2002/2003 in the Italian capital Rome. From 2002 to 2008 he was pastor of the Quickborn - Hasloh parish .

From August 1, 2008 to 2017, Kruse was pastor of the Evangelical Lutheran parish in Rome at the Christ Church . One of the highlights of his tenure was visits to the church by Popes Benedict XVI. on March 14, 2010 and Francis on November 15, 2015 as well as the 200th anniversary of the congregation in April 2017.

On September 27, 2017, the church district synod of the Hamburg-Ost church district elected him in the first ballot as the successor of the deceased senior pastor Martina Severin-Kaiser as the new senior pastor of the Petrikirche. His ministry to St. Petri began on February 1st, 2018, and his festive introduction by Provost Ulrike Murmann took place on April 22nd, 2018.

Kruse is a Knight of Honor of the Order of St. John and a member of the Luther Society , the International Dietrich Bonhoeffer Society and the Friends of the Melanchthon Center in Rome.

Jens-Martin Kruse is with the bookseller Silke, geb. Count married. The couple has three children.

Awards

• Federal Cross of Merit 1st Class (2016) - for the work of Pastor Jens-Martin Kruse in the service of ecumenism

Publications

as an author and co-author

• Ralf Busch , Jens-Martin Kruse: The former ducal library, Otto I. and Philipp Melanchthon. An exhibition on the occasion of the Melanchthon year 1997 . Editor: Kerstin Wittig (=  publications of the Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg, Helms-Museum . No. 77 ). Hamburg Museum for Archeology and the History of Harburg (Helms Museum) , Hamburg 1997, ISBN 3-931429-04-0 .
• Jens-Martin Kruse: University theology and church reform. The beginnings of the Reformation in Wittenberg 1516–1522 (=  publications of the Institute for European History Mainz . Volume 187 ). Von Zabern, Mainz 2002, ISBN 3-8053-2758-7 (university publication; also dissertation Universität Hamburg 2000).

as co-editor

• Doris Esch, Harding Meyer , Wolfgang Thönissen a . a .: Ecumenism in Rome. Experiences, encounters and perspectives of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community in Rome. Unus fons, unus spiritus, una fides = Ecumenismo a Roma . Published on behalf of the Evangelical Lutheran Church Community in Rome. Ed .: Jürgen Krüger, Jens-Martin Kruse. Arte Factum, Karlsruhe 2010, ISBN 978-3-938560-23-5 (German, Italian).

literature

• Benjamin Leven: portrait. The ecumenical ambassador: Jens-Martin Kruse . In: Herder correspondence . Issue 5, 2017, ISSN  0018-0645 , p. 8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} (epd): Pastor from Rome becomes Hamburg's main pastor . In: The world . September 29, 2017 ( online at welt.de [accessed June 7, 2020]).
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e} Dr. theol. Jens Martin Kruse ( Memento from September 28, 2017 in the Internet Archive ), press release on the award ceremony, accessed on September 27, 2017.
3. ↑ Evelyn Finger : Jens-Martin Kruse: "Once in Rome and back". Interview. In: ZEIT ONLINE . September 25, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 . 
4. ↑ (eb): Pope presents Lutherans in Rome with a communion chalice as a gift. In: evangelischer-bund.de . November 16, 2015, accessed on June 7, 2020 (source: Vatican Radio, November 15, 2015). 
5. ↑ Renardo Schlegelmilch: Pastor Jens-Martin Kruse anniversary of the Protestant church in Rome. Lively and reliable ecumenism. Interview. In: domradio.de . April 3, 2017. Retrieved September 27, 2017 . 
6. ↑ Thomas Morell, Lena Modrow: Jens-Martin Kruse is the new chief pastor of St. Petri. In: nordkirche.de . September 28, 2017, accessed June 7, 2020 . 
7. ↑ Remmer Koch, Lena Modrow: The new St. Petri Pastor is introduced to his office. In: nordkirche.de . April 20, 2018, accessed June 7, 2020 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Martina Severin-Kaiser	Senior Pastor at St. Petri in Hamburg 2017–