Provost district Meiningen-Suhl
The Propstsprengel Meiningen-Suhl is a subdivision of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany (EKM). In the five provost parishes , also called parishes or provosts, several church districts are combined to form a common supervisory district, which is presided over by a provost; but there is no joint administration and also no synod as at the level of the church districts.
The Propstsprengel Meiningen-Suhl comprises seven church districts and was provisionally formed in 2009 and finally on January 1, 2012. The Provostspengel has its seat at Sachsenstrasse 15 in Meiningen ; The main church is the Meiningen town church . Acting regional bishop is provost Tobias Schüfer .
area
The area of the Propstsprengels includes southern Thuringia and largely corresponds to the southern supervisory district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia before it was incorporated into the EKM. Only the Henneberger Land parish, the area around Suhl that belonged to the Evangelical Church of the ecclesiastical province of Saxony until 2009 , belongs to the Erfurt District Church Office , the six other church districts to the Meiningen District Church Office. The Provostspengel has 416 parishes with 499 churches and chapels and around 146,000 members (as of 2016).
The provost parish consists of the following church districts:
- Arnstadt-Ilmenau
- Bad Salzungen-Dermbach
- Henneberger Land
- Hildburghausen ice field
- Meiningen
- Rudolstadt-Saalfeld
- Sonneberg
history
In the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Thuringia , four supervisory districts were formed in 1946, for which senior church councils from the regional church office were commissioned as visitors. There were the supervisory districts East (with seat in Gera), Middle (with seat in Weimar), West (with seat in Gotha) and South (with seat in Meiningen). The middle supervisory district was dissolved in 1998 and its area was divided between the three other supervisory districts. Since then, the church districts Arnstadt-Ilmenau, Bad Salzungen-Dermbach, Hildburghausen-Eisfeld, Meiningen, Rudolstadt-Saalfeld and Sonneberg have belonged to the southern supervisory district.
The Henneberger Land church district, created in 1989 by merging the Schleusingen and Suhl church districts, belonged to the Erfurt Provost until 1994, then to the Erfurt-Nordhausen Provost , one of the last five supervisory districts in the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony.
After the establishment of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany in 2009, the two areas were converted to the Propstsprengel Meiningen-Suhl. Marita Krüger has been the senior church councilor of the southern supervisory district since October 1, 1998 , who then became the regional bishop of the provost district and deputy regional bishop. When the EKM provosts were reorganized, the Meiningen-Suhl provosts were re-established on January 1, 2012. Marita Krüger retired on April 1st, 2013. Her successor was Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt , who, however, changed to the office of regional bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany on April 1, 2019 . Until a successor was elected, her previous deputy, Ulrich Lieberknecht, served as provost. On November 29, 2019, Tobias Schüfer was elected as the new regional bishop by the regional synod ; he took office in April 2020.
Provosts or visitors
Visitators for the southern supervisory district
- 1946–1949: Ernst Köhler
- 1970–1988: Dietrich Vogel von Frommannshausen-Schubart
- 1988–1992: Roland Hoffmann
- 1993–1998: Johann Friedrich Krüger
- 1998–2009: Marita Krüger
Toast
- 2009–2013: Marita Krüger
- 2013–2019: Kristina Kühnbaum-Schmidt
- from 2020: Tobias Schüfer