District dean of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis

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The Altenberg Cathedral is the historically most important place in the district dean's office.
Deanery Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis
Basic data
Political situation Germany :

North Rhine-Westphalia : ( Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis )

Ecclesiastical province Cologne
diocese Archdiocese of Cologne
Metropolitan Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki
Diocesan bishop Rainer Maria Cardinal Woelki
Dean Norbert Hört
Parish communities 11
Parishes 22nd
Catholics 106,000
rite Latin rite
Liturgical language German
Website [1]

The District Deanery of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis with 106,000 Catholics is one of fifteen city and district deans in the Archdiocese of Cologne .

It is congruent with the political unity of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis . The district dean's office, based in Bergisch Gladbach, combines the former dean's offices in Altenberg, Bergisch Gladbach and Overath, which were dissolved on January 1, 2017 as part of the reorganization of the dean's offices in the Archdiocese of Cologne. The tasks of the deaneries were transferred to the district deanery.

Pastoral Areas

The district dean's office consists of eleven pastoral care areas:

The 11 pastoral care areas of the Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis dean's office
Pastoral care City / municipality
1 St. Johannes Baptist and St. Heinrich Corpses
2 Odenthal / Altenberg Odenthal
3 St. Marien, Kürten Kürten
4th Wermelskirchen / Burscheid Wermelskirchen

Burscheid

5 St. Laurence Bergisch Gladbach
6th St. Joseph and St. Antonius Bergisch Gladbach
7th Bensberg / Moitzfeld Bergisch Gladbach
8th St. Johann Baptist, Refrath Bergisch Gladbach
9 Bergisch Gladbach-West Bergisch Gladbach
10 Overath Overath
11 St. Nicholas Rösrath

Important churches and pilgrimage sites

Facilities

At the level of the district dean's office, the Katholisches Bildungswerk im Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis (sponsor: Bildungswerk der Erzdiözese Köln ) and the Caritasverband für der Rheinisch-Bergischer Kreis eV are active. The Catholic Youth Agency Leverkusen, Rhein-Berg, Oberberg gGmbH is based in Bergisch Gladbach and is also active in Leverkusen and the Oberbergischer Kreis in addition to the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis .

The Archdiocese of Cologne maintains the youth education center Haus Altenberg in Odenthal-Altenberg and the Kardinal-Schulte-Haus in Bergisch Gladbach-Bensberg, which is also the seat of the Thomas-More-Academy . In Dabringhausen , the conference hotel Maria in der Aue is sponsored by the Familien-Ferien-Trägerwerk eV

Ecumenism

The ecumenical movement in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis has a long tradition. The Altenberg Cathedral has been a simultaneous church since the 19th century . H. at the same time parish church of a Catholic and a Protestant parish. In the present there is an interdenominational regional network. The full assembly of the ecumenical committee in the Rheinisch-Bergisches Kreis brings together delegates from the communities in the Rheinisch-Bergisch Kreis; Members are the Catholic district dean of the Rheinisch-Bergische Kreis, the superintendent of the Evangelical Church District Cologne-Rechtsrheinisch, representatives of the District Catholic Council and the Evangelical District Synodal Board as well as the ecumenical officers of the district dean's office and the church district. There are also representatives of the free churches as well as the Protestant and Catholic pastors at Altenberg Cathedral. The annual “Altenberger Forum Church and Politics” is of supraregional importance.

Circle dean

  • 1974–1980 Leo Meiß
  • 1980–1997 Hans Hausdörfer
  • 1997–2009 Klaus Anders
  • since 2009 Norbert Hört

Web link

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archdiocese of Cologne: data, figures and facts | Archdiocese of Cologne. Retrieved January 19, 2018 .
  2. ^ Official Journal of the Archdiocese of Cologne, Volume 156, Item 11, November 1, 2016 , pp. 376–379.
  3. ↑ Oekumene-Gl. Retrieved January 23, 2018 .