Greifswald church district

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The Greifswald church district was one of four church districts of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church . It was formed on January 1, 1997 from the merger of the old Prussian church districts Anklam, Greifswald-Stadt, Greifswald-Land, Usedom and Wolgast. The official seat was the Hanseatic city of Greifswald . The church district of Greifswald was integrated into the Pomeranian Evangelical Church District at Whitsun 2012 when the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany was re-established ( "Northern Church" ) .

Geographical location

The superintendent district of Greifswald was in the east of the state of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania .

It covered the eastern part of the area of ​​the Pomeranian Evangelical Church. The following church districts were border neighbors:

In the east the Greifswalder Bodden formed a natural border with the Baltic Sea.

history

Reformation and episcopate

When the Reformation was introduced in Pomerania on December 13, 1534 at the Landtag in Treptow an der Rega, it was planned that in future a Protestant bishop would be at the head of the Pomeranian church . The previous Bishop of Cammin Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen was planned , but surprisingly refused to subordinate the episcopate to the patronage of the sovereign and thus also revoked his initial commitment to the Reformation.

When Bishop Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen died in 1544, the idea of ​​a bishop came up again. On April 12, 1545, the ducal chancellor Bartholomaeus Suawe was elected bishop, but in 1549 he gave up the office again. His successor, Martin von Weiher, showed certain inclinations towards Catholicism. After his death in 1556, the office of bishop was passed on to members of the ducal house, who provided it as titular bishops without spiritual authority.

General superintendent Greifswald

After Erasmus von Manteuffel-Arnhausen's rejection, the dukes installed “superattendents” in the spiritual church leadership. Johann Knipstro was appointed superintendent for the region of Pomerania-Wolgast, who was referred to as Pomeranie Superintendens primus citerioris in 1539 and Superintendens generalis in 1544 . This general superintendent initially had his seat in Wolgast and since 1553 in Greifswald . He also provided the superintendent of Rügen, for which a separate "superattendent" was intended, but which only had its own official from 1551 to 1556. For a long time, the Greifswald general superintendent also had to manage the duties of the city superintendent. With a few exceptions, his geographical area of ​​responsibility was in the area of ​​Western Pomerania, his professional activity was primarily the church visitation, which he carried out on behalf of the duke with the support of ducal councils. He also had to take part in the synods in the national as well as in the particular area. The right of confirmation initially lay with him only, later with the town pastors and some village pastors. The ordination and appointment of pastors was his right.

By order of March 8, 1828, it was determined that the general superintendent of Szczecin should in future be the official for New and Old Pomerania. Thus the general superintendent for Western Pomerania in Greifswald was canceled. The city superintendent and the superintendent for the district of Greifswald remained, which remained as "synods", after 1945 "church districts" Greifswald-Stadt and Greifswald-Land until 1997, when they were merged with the neighboring regions to form the "church district Greifswald".

The fortunes of the Second World War unintentionally revalued Greifswald's ecclesiastical importance: the Pomeranian Church had to find a new official seat due to the loss of Western Pomerania east of the Oder with Stettin. In 1947, Greifswald became the seat of the consistory of the Pomeranian Evangelical Church .

General superintendent

  1. Johannes Knipstro , 1535–1556
  2. D. Jacob Runge , 1557-1595
  3. Friedrich Runge , 1597–1604
  4. Barthold von Krakevitz , 1607–1642
  5. Mövius Völschow , 1642–1650
  6. Abraham Battus , 1662-1674
  7. Matthäus Tabbert , 1675
  8. Augustinus Balthasar , 1680–1688
  9. D. Konrad Tiburtius Rango , 1689-1700
  10. Johann Friedrich Mayer , 1701–1712
  11. Heinrich Brandanus Gebhardi , 1712–1721
  12. D. Albrecht Joachim von Krakevitz , 1721–1732
  13. D. Timotheus Lütkemann , 1734–1738
  14. Michael Christian Rusmeyer , 1740-1745
  15. D. Jakob Heinrich von Balthasar , 1746–1763
  16. D. Laurentius Stenzler , 1763–1778
  17. D. Bernhard Friedrich Quistorp , 1778–1788
  18. D. Gottlieb Schlegel , 1790-1810
  19. D. Johann Christoph Ziemssen , 1812-1824

Church district

District Synod

The synod of the parish was the representation of the parishes. The district synod decided on the budget and on all of the church district's own tasks. The chairman of the district synod was the president .

District Church Council

The district synod also elected the members of the district church council, which leads the church district between the district synods. The chairman was the superintendent.

Superintendent

The superintendent's office was the center of the administration of the church district. The superintendent was a leading clergyman and both pastor and advisor to the departments and employees. He represented the church district externally. The last incumbent was Ulrich Tetzlaff .

Parishes

52 parishes belonged to the church district of Greifswald:
(Church district membership before 1945: Anklam (A), Greifswald-Land (GL), Greifswald-Stadt (GS), Usedom (U), Wolgast (W))

Churches in the parish

The list of churches in the Greifswald parish provides an enumeration of the churches in the parish .

Church district institutions

  • Hospital pastoral care Greifswald
  • School Parish Office
  • Youth pastor in Greifswald, Anklam and Usedom
  • District cantors in Greifswald, Anklam and Usedom
  • Job for working with children and young people