New Apostolic Church Central Germany
| New Apostolic Church Central Germany | |
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| Church President | District Apostle Wilfried Klingler |
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| founded | 1864 (in current form since 2002) |
| Members | 47,931 (December 31, 2013) |
| Communities | 263 (December 31, 2013) |
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The New Apostolic Church in Central Germany was an administrative area of the New Apostolic Church , which included southern Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt, Saxony and Thuringia and a small part of Brandenburg. The New Apostolic Christians and congregations in Poland , Slovakia , Sudan , some islands in the Indian Ocean and the Indian state of Kerala were cared for from Central Germany .
The communities belong to the three legally independent district churches of Lower Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Saxony / Thuringia. These have the status of a corporation under public law in the respective federal states .
The District Church of Central Germany was absorbed into the New Apostolic Church of North and East Germany on June 19, 2016 .
history
After the separation from the Catholic-Apostolic congregations , the first church was founded in Central Germany in 1864 in Schladen (Lower Saxony), in 1865 in Ilsenburg (Saxony-Anhalt) and in 1888 in Ranis near Pößneck (Saxony / Thuringia).
An early center of the New Apostolic movement had been in the Harz region since 1864. Numerous communities emerged there in the 1860s. Well-known centers of movement were Schladen and Osterode am Fallstein. The municipality of Schladen was founded in Hamburg in 1864 . Numerous so-called mission celebrations took place in Osterode am Fallstein. A short time later, Wolfenbüttel and Braunschweig developed into centers of the New Apostolic movement.
The communities in Lower Saxony were initially looked after together with those in Saxony-Anhalt. This was done through the District Church of the Apostle District of Braunschweig. In the 1940s, the district church was renamed the Apostle District Hanover (after 1985 Apostle District Lower Saxony ). Due to the Iron Curtain , after 1945 the parishes in Saxony-Anhalt were raised independently to the district church of the Apostle District Magdeburg (later Apostle District Saxony-Anhalt ). Since 1997 both district churches have been looked after together again.
Due to the age-related retirement of District Apostle Wilfried Klingler in June 2016, the District Church of Central Germany was merged with the District Church of Northern Germany. Since then, it has been looked after by District Apostle Rüdiger Krause from Northern Germany. For the new area, church members were called upon to submit proposals for a new name for this district church by the end of August 2015. "New Apostolic Church North and East Germany" was introduced as a new name in autumn 2015 by the future church leadership. This fits in with the emerging district church and was increasingly suggested in the survey results of church members.
Previous leadership of the District Churches
District Church of Lower Saxony
- 1881–1897: District Apostle Friedrich Krebs
- 1897–1906: District Apostle Sebastian
- 1906–1936: District Apostle Otto Steinweg
- 1936–1968: District Apostle Hermann Knigge
- 1968–1993: District Apostle Arno Steinweg
- 1993–2016: District Apostle Wilfried Klingler (since 1997 with Saxony-Anhalt, 2002 with Saxony / Thuringia)
District Church of Saxony-Anhalt
- 1957–1972: District Apostle Heinrich Oberländer
- 1972–1997: District Apostle Siegfried Karnick
District Church of Saxony / Thuringia
- 1985–2002: District Apostle Fritz Nehrkorn
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ nak-mitteldeutschland.de: Church President
- ↑ http://www.nak-mitteldeutschland.de/regionen/apostelbereich/
- ↑ a b nak-mitteldeutschland.de: Summary
- ↑ http://www.nak-nordost.de/db/56291/Nachrichten/Ruediger-Krause-leitet-neuen-Bezirksapostelbereich
- ↑ http://www.nak-norddeutschland.de/index/aktuelles/nachrichtendetails/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=1516&cHash=4cd8352e1080a3b0dee098e4e22deb16
- ↑ http://nac.today/de/a/341147
