Provost parish Stendal-Magdeburg

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The Propstsprengel Stendal-Magdeburg is a subdivision of the Evangelical Church in Central Germany . In the total of 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 provost parish Stendal-Magdeburg was formed on April 1st, 2009 by amalgamating the parishes Magdeburg-Halberstadt and Altmark and has its seat at the Stendal Cathedral . Provost ( regional bishop ) has been Christoph Hackbeil since 2009 .

Location and structure

The parish includes the northern part of the regional church and at the same time the northern part of the state of Saxony-Anhalt , with some areas in Brandenburg . It consists of the following church districts:

  • Leeches
  • Elbe-Fläming
  • Halberstadt
  • Haldensleben-Wolmirstedt
  • Magdeburg
  • Salzwedel
  • Stendal

history

The Preliminary church leadership of the then to the Evangelical Church of the Old Prussian Union belonging to the Church Province of Saxony decided in January 1946, the three Generalsuperintendenturen as supervisory districts through seven deaneries (1947 came to an eighth) to replace. In the administrative district of Magdeburg these were the three provosts Altmark (with the area of ​​today's church districts Salzwedel and Stendal), Halberstadt-Quedlinburg (with the area of ​​today's church districts Halberstadt and Egeln) and Magdeburg (with the area of ​​today's church districts Elbe-Fläming, Haldensleben- Wolmirstedt and Magdeburg). Halberstadt-Quedlinburg and Magdeburg were combined in 1997 to form the Halberstadt-Magdeburg provost.

Toast

Altmark

Halberstadt-Quedlinburg

Magdeburg

Halberstadt-Magdeburg

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Carsten Nicolaisen , Ruth Pabst: Handbook of the German Protestant Churches 1918 to 1949. Organs - Offices - Associations - Persons. Volume 2: State and Provincial Churches . Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-647-55794-6 , p. 248.