Parish administrator
Parish administrator or simply Verweser is the common term in Germany and German-speaking Switzerland for a deputy in the parish office or for a pastor who is not appointed by the community.
The official evangelical name in many places is pastor for employment or parish administrator . In Germany this applies in particular to prospective pastors after the second church examination and the vicariate or teaching vicariate.
In the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland (EKiR), a parish administrator is a person (usually a pastor on trial service) who takes over the representation during a parish vacancy and is equipped with all the rights of a parish holder (in particular voting membership in the presbytery ). In the EKiR practice, parish administrators are no longer appointed.
In reformed Switzerland, the representation of the parish is regulated differently. In the Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich , for example, parish administrators are delegated by the cantonal church council to pastor posts that have become vacant until these can be definitively filled again by popular elections. The provisional position in this case is called corruption; this may not last longer than two years.
In the Reformed Regional Church of Aargau , however, the provisional filling of parish posts is a matter for church administration .
In the Old Catholic Church in Germany , the office of a parish administrator includes exercising all parish rights during a parish vacancy. At the interim or permanent exercise of this office only can priests be ordered. It does not matter whether it is a priest in the teaching vicariate or the pastor of another parish . A priest entrusted with the duties of a parish administrator is, if he is not already a pastor, regularly given the title of “pastor”, so that the term “parish administrator” is only of canonical meaning, but not colloquial.
According to Roman Catholic canon law, a parish administrator is appointed by the bishop in the event of a prolonged or permanent absence of the pastor . This then represents the pastor in all duties and has the same rights.
literature
- Listl, Müller, Schmitz (editor): Handbook of Catholic Church Law , page 409f.
See also
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- ↑ Art. 20.2, Church Ordinance of the Evangelical Church in the Rhineland of January 10, 2003, last amended by Church Law of January 10, 2008.
- ↑ Art. 140 of the Church Ordinance of the Evangelical Reformed Church of the Canton of Zurich of July 2, 1967.
- ↑ Art. 44.3 of the Church Order of the Reformed Regional Church Aargau
- ↑ http://www.kirchen-lexikon.de/kirchen-lexikon.taf?_function=list_begins&Head_de=P&nr=33&_UserReference=D1B05B7BA7B90B9043ADD15D