Church district Augsburg

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Church district Augsburg

St. Ulrich (ev.) In Augsburg
sermon church of the regional bishop
organization
Regional church Evangelical Luth. Church in Bavaria
statistics
Deanery districts 7th
Parishes 150
Parishioners 261,000
management
Regional bishop Axel Piper
Office address Fuggerstrasse 11
86150 Augsburg
Web presence www.schwaben-evangelisch.de

The Augsburg church district is congruent with the administrative district of Swabia . Around 261,000 Protestant Christians (as of December 31, 2019) live in more than 150 parishes. The seat of the upper church council is Augsburg. Regional Bishop Axel Piper has been senior church councilor in the Augsburg church district since 2019 .

history

The Augsburg church district was established in 1971, making it the youngest of the six Bavarian church districts. Nevertheless, the evangelicals can look back on a long history here. In the former imperial cities of Augsburg , Kaufbeuren , Kempten , Lindau , Memmingen and Nördlingen , in the areas around Memmingen, Neu-Ulm and in the Ries, as well as in individual former imperial knighthoods, the Protestant tradition goes back to the Reformation in the 16th century. Many Protestant communities were then founded in the course of industrialization and the construction of the railroad at the turn of the 20th century.

The expellees , many of them evangelical denomination , gave after the Second World War led to the foundation of other Protestant churches . This historical development is the reason for very different denominational relationships in Bavarian Swabia today. In the south, especially in the Allgäu , the Protestants are in a predominantly Catholic environment, whereas in the Ries , entire villages are often purely Protestant.

Guest and course chaplaincy plays an important role in church life in the Augsburg parish. Mountain worship services and other events are offered in numerous places, which are particularly aimed at the numerous holidaymakers and spa guests in the tourist centers.

Deanery districts

There are seven deanery districts :

District deans (until 1999) or regional bishops

Web links

Commons : Kirchenkreis Augsburg  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Leaving the church worries the Mindelheim pastors. Augsburger Allgemeine from July 10, 2020, accessed on July 15, 2020.