Paul Pellar

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Paul Pellar (born November 28, 1919 in Hermagor ; † February 26, 1988 ) was an Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian and from 1968 to 1988 Superintendent of the Diocese of Carinthia and East Tyrol .

Life

Paul Pellar attended high school in Bad Godesberg . He studied theology in Bonn and Vienna , made his vicariate with Superintendent Fritz Zerbst in Villach in 1948 and was ordained in 1949 .

Pellar worked from 1950 as the acting pastor at the church in the city park in Villach. He worked as the first specialist inspector for Protestant religious instruction in Carinthia . From 1956 he was a member of the Synod of the Evangelical Church AB in Austria , as its vice-president he temporarily functioned. In 1968, Paul Pellar succeeded Gerhard Glawischnig as Superintendent of the Diocese of Carinthia and East Tyrol and remained in office until his death in 1988. In 1969 he took part in the first meeting of the Ecumenical Contact Commission of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gurk and in 1976 - together with Bishop Joseph Köstner - in the first Protestant Catholic pastors' meeting in Carinthia. In the local sign dispute in 1972 Pellar declared solidarity with the Carinthian Slovenes .

The historian Brigitte Pellar is his daughter.

Fonts

  • Your hand over me Confirmation booklet . Evangelical Press Association in Austria, Vienna 1962.

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Paul Pellar. Evangelisches Museum Österreich, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
  2. ↑ Superintendent. Evangelisches Museum Österreich, accessed on December 1, 2018 .
  3. ^ Martin Edlinger: Ecumenism in Carinthia. (PDF) Internet editorial office of the Diocese of Gurk, 2016, pp. 15–16, 25 , accessed on December 1, 2018 .
  4. ↑ Bishop Streiff: When looking into the future everything seems much more threatening. Methodist Church in Austria, August 30, 2018, accessed December 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ "Kreuz und Quer" about grieving pastor and pastor's children. In: ORF.at. 2007, accessed December 1, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Pellar, Paul
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Evangelical Lutheran theologian
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Hermagor
DATE OF DEATH February 26, 1988