Regional bishop

Regional Bishop is the title of the spiritual director of some Protestant regional churches in Germany. The term arose from the introduction of the sovereign church regiment during the Reformation . Rulers who enforced the introduction of the new confession for their country subsequently exercised all the rights of a bishop for their territory, hence the term regional bishop , also summus episcŏpus ( Latin for: "supreme bishop"). With the end of the monarchy after the First World War , the sovereign church regiment ceased to exist in 1918 . Since then, the synod in some regional churches has chosen a theologian to be the regional bishop as the competent body . Other regional churches know the bishop or the president , church president or secretary as the leading spiritual office . At the end of the 1980s, women were elected to leadership positions for the first time .

• There are regional bishops in the following churches:
  • Evangelical Church in Baden ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church in Braunschweig ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Hanover ,
  • Evangelical Church in Central Germany ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony ,
  • Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church Schaumburg-Lippe and
  • Evangelical Church in Württemberg .
• There are bishops in the following churches:
  • Evangelical Church Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia ,
  • Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck as well
  • Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg .
• There are church presidents in the following churches:
  • Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau ,
  • Evangelical Church of Anhalt ,
  • Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and
  • Evangelical Reformed Church .
• There is a praeses in the following churches:
  • Evangelical Church in the Rhineland as well
  • Evangelical Church of Westphalia .
• There is a secretary in the following church:
  • Bremen Evangelical Church .
• There is a state superintendent in the following church:
  • Lippe regional church .

Women in ministry of spiritual leadership

• Maria Jepsen was bishop in the districts of Hamburg and Hamburg-Lübeck from 1992 to 2010, and from 2001 to 2004 she was also the chairwoman of the church leadership of the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church and thus the leading bishop. Other female bishops in the NEK: Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter (District Holstein-Lübeck, 2001–2008), Kirsten Fehrs (District Hamburg-Lübeck, since 2011).
• Margot Käßmann , from 1999 to 2010 regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover , from 2009 to 2010 also chairwoman of the council of the EKD
• Ilse Junkermann , from 2009 to 2019 State Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany
• Annette Kurschus , President of the Evangelical Church of Westphalia since 2012
• Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt , since 2019 State Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany
• Beate Hofmann , Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck since 2019

Web links

• Baden : Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Baden
• Bavaria : Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria
• Braunschweig : Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Braunschweig
• ELK-WUE : Regional Bishop of the Evangelical Church in Württemberg
• Palatinate : Church President of the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate (Protestant regional church)