Regensburg church district
| Regensburg church district | |
|---|---|
 Dreinigkeitskirche Regensburg Sermon church of the regional bishops |
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| organization | |
| Regional church | Evangelical Luth. Church in Bavaria |
| statistics | |
| Deanery districts | 8th |
| Parishes | 149 |
| Parishioners | 300,000 |
| management | |
| Regional bishop | Klaus Stiegler |
| Office address | Liskircher Strasse 17 93049 Regensburg |
| Web presence | www.kirchenkreis-regensburg.de |
The Evangelical Church District Regensburg is one of the six church districts of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria . It covers the area of Lower Bavaria , essential parts of the Upper Palatinate and also small parts of Upper Bavaria . It has a total of 300,000 Evangelical Lutheran Christians in 8 deanery districts.
The currently incumbent regional bishop is Oberkirchenrat Klaus Stiegler . The Dreieinigkeitskirche in Regensburg is the main church of the parish and thus the sermon church of the regional bishop.
history
Some parishes in the church district were founded during the Reformation. The driving forces at that time were the respective sovereigns. In the Regensburg church district the following were: Count Palatine Ottheinrich , the Imperial City of Regensburg , the Imperial Counts of Ortenburg , and the Counts of Wolfstein .
After the Second World War , tens of thousands, mainly Silesian expellees, came to Lower Bavaria and the Upper Palatinate. The diaspora communities were strengthened and many new communities were founded. In 1951, this ultimately led to the establishment of a separate church district in Regensburg, to which the deaneries of Landshut, Regensburg and Passau from the church district of Munich and the deaneries of Cham, Neumarkt, Sulzbach and Weiden from the church district of Bayreuth were transferred. In 1971 the dean's office in Ingolstadt was also reclassified from the Munich parish to the Regensburg parish.
Deanery districts
The church district has eight deanery districts:
List of regional bishops (up to 2000 district deans)
- 1952–1964 Wilhelm Koller
- 1964–1966 Wilhelm Schwinn
- 1967–1979 Hermann Bürckstümmer
- 1979–1988 Theodor Heckel
- 1988–1996 Gotthart Preiser
- 1997-2004 Helmut Millauer
- 2004–2019 Hans-Martin Weiss
- since 2019 Klaus Stiegler
Web links
- Homepage of the Regensburg Church District
- Preface to the overview of the archive holdings (with historical outline)
