New Apostolic Church Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland
| New Apostolic Church Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland | |
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| Church President | District Apostle Bernd Koberstein |
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| founded | 1888 |
| Members | 39,000 |
| Communities | 292 |
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The New Apostolic Church Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland was a district church of the New Apostolic Church , the Hesse , Rhineland-Palatinate , the Saarland and smaller parts of North Rhine-Westphalia (Siegen and Siegerland) and Bavaria (Aschaffenburg, Bad Brückenau, Klingenberg am Main, Wertheim ) included. On January 1, 2018, it was absorbed into the New Apostolic Church in North Rhine-Westphalia, whose name was changed to New Apostolic Church West Germany . The New Apostolic Christians and congregations in Belgium , Luxembourg , the Middle East, North Africa and North West Africa were cared for from the District Church . From December 2013 France was added.
It had the status of a corporation under public law .
history
The first Catholic-Apostolic congregations arose here from 1848 (Marburg).
The first New Apostolic congregations arose in Central Hesse from 1881, in the Rhine-Main area from 1885. At the end of 1864, Apostle Johann Christoph Hohl was called to Hamburg. After a long stay in his home in Wurttemberg, Weikersheim, he worked in Gießen from 1881 and in Frankfurt am Main from 1885, supported by the evangelist Georg Gustav Adolf Ruff. This means that the Hesse District Church was born in 1881.
After Hohl's death in 1887, the district church was headed by the newly appointed and ordained Apostle Ruff. This became seriously ill around the turn of the century. In 1905, the then Bishop Johann Gottfried Bischoff was ordained as Apostle Helper to help him . In 1906 - after the apostle Ruff died - he was ordained apostle for the then so-called Frankfurt district .
In 1907 this district included all New Apostolic congregations in what is now Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate, Saarland, Bavaria and Baden-Württemberg. From 1907 the seat of the district church was no longer Frankfurt am Main, but Mainz.
In 1924 construction began on a new church for Frankfurt-West at Sophienstrasse 50, which was inaugurated at the end of 1925. At the same time, a residential building was built on the neighboring property, which has since housed the administration of the New Apostolic Church in Frankfurt for many years.
After Johann Gottfried Bischoff took over the leadership of the church as Chief Apostle (1930), he was followed as District Apostle of the District Church by Arthur Landgraf (1933–1936), Emil Buchner (1936–1951), Gottfried Rockenfelder (1952–1984), Klaus Saur (1984–1936). 1995, was District Apostle of the District Church of Southern Germany until April 2006, Hagen Wend (1995–2009) and Bernd Koberstein (January 11, 2009 - December 31, 2017 and February 25, 2018).
On January 1, 2001, the three District Churches of Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland, headed by District Apostle Hagen Wend, merged to form the new District Church of Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland. This in turn became part of the District Church of North Rhine-Westphalia on January 1, 2018, which was also renamed the District Church of West Germany. Bernd Koberstein remained responsible for the congregations in the area of his former district church for almost two months until he retired on February 25, 2018.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c The Prime Minister of North Rhine-Westphalia: Union of the New Apostolic Church North Rhine-Westphalia K. d. ö. R. and the New Apostolic Church Hesse / Rhineland-Palatinate / Saarland K. d. Ö. R. to the New Apostolic Church West Germany with seat in Dortmund K. d. ö. R. GV. NRW. P. 88. Ministry of the Interior of North Rhine-Westphalia, January 17, 2018, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c NAK West: District Apostle Bernd Koberstein. New Apostolic Church West Germany, corporation under public law, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ↑ a b c d NAK West: History: The New Apostolic Church in Hesse, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland. New Apostolic Church West Germany, corporation under public law, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
- ^ NAK Frankfurt: History: Growth in the interwar period. New Apostolic Church, Frankfurt district, accessed on March 8, 2020 .
