Church district Ansbach-Würzburg
| Church district Ansbach-Würzburg |
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 The pulpit in St. Gumbertus in Ansbach Sermon site of the regional bishop |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Evangelical Luth. Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| Deanery districts | 19th |
| Parishes | 455 |
| Parishioners | 435,000 |
| management | |
| Regional Bishop | Gisela Bornowski |
| Office address | Welserstraße 6 91522 Ansbach |
| Web presence | www.kk-an-wue.de |
The Evangelical Church District Ansbach-Würzburg is one of the six church districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . It includes the western part of Central Franconia and largely Lower Franconia . On March 2, 2014, Gisela Bornowski was introduced to the office of regional bishop in St. Johannis in Würzburg . It represents around 435,000 Protestant Christians from 455 congregations. The sermon churches of the regional bishop are St. Gumbertus in Ansbach and St. Johannis in Würzburg, where the Amstein tours traditionally take place.
history
The church district was set up in 1921 by the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria under the name Kirchenkreis Ansbach with the church districts Munich and Bayreuth . In 1987 it was renamed the Ansbach-Würzburg parish .
In 1935 and 1951 the parish gave several deaneries to the newly founded parish of Nuremberg .
The parish of Ansbach-Würzburg held a special position for a long time due to its two bishoprics, whereby the bishopric in Würzburg was closed for cost reasons. Time and again it has also been considered whether the deaneries of Lower Franconia should be spun off from the Ansbach-Würzburg parish and form a separate parish, but this has so far met with opposition.
Deanery districts
The church district comprises 19 deanery districts:
District deans (until 1999) or regional bishops
- 1921–1925: Adolf Hermann (1867–1929)
- 1925–1934: Wilhelm Rüdel (1871–1934)
- 1934–1947: Georg Kern (1885–1947)
- 1947–1966: Heinrich Koch (1898–1974)
- 1966–1975: Christian Rieger (1908–1997)
- 1975–1985: Rudolf Meiser (1920–2015)
- 1985–1991: Gottfried Naether (1926–2017)
- 1991–2002: Ernst Dietrich Bezzel (* 1937)
- 2002–2009: Helmut Völkel (1952–2018)
- 2009–2014: Christian Schmidt (* 1948)
- since 2009: Gisela Bornowski (* 1962)
Web links
- Church districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
- Self-introduction of the church district
- Preface to the overview of the archive holdings (with historical outline)
