Rudiger Minor

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Rüdiger Rainer Minor (born February 22, 1939 in Leipzig ; † September 3, 2017 in Dresden ) was a Protestant theologian . He was bishop i. R. of the United Methodist Church (UMC).

Life

Rüdiger Minor studied theology at the Theological Seminary of the UMC in Bad Klosterlausnitz (combined with the Theological Seminary in Reutlingen in 1991 ) and at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig , where he received his doctorate in 1968 and did his habilitation less than three months later. In 1966 he was ordained as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church , which in 1968 merged with the Evangelical Community to form the Evangelical Methodist Church. From 1969 he was first part-time and from 1976 full-time lecturer for church history at the Theological Seminary Bad Klosterlausnitz, which he headed from 1984 to 1986 as seminar director. Later he also worked as a lecturer at the UMC theological seminar in Moscow . Between 2008 and 2010 he took on a professorship at Emory University in the USA . From 2013 to 2015 he took over the management of the parish districts Dresden-Friedenskirche and Dresden-Zionskirche during a vacancy.

Minor had been married to his wife Gerlinde since 1964 and had three children. He died on September 3, 2017 in Dresden.

Episcopate

In 1986 Rüdiger Minor was elected Bishop of the UMC in the GDR to succeed Armin Härtel . He held this office until 1992, at the first all-German central conference, the Unification Conference, after reunification . At this central conference, Minor and Walter Klaiber ran for the office of German UMC bishop . Klaiber had been the UMC bishop in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin since 1989. He has now been elected bishop of the UMC in Germany. Minor followed the assignment for work in the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) area. In 1993 he became bishop of the Eurasian district of the Northeast European Central Conference based in Moscow . He held this position until he retired in 2005. His successor in the Episcopate for Eurasia is Hans Växby.

Fonts

  • The Methodist Episcopal Church in Saxony. Leipzig 1968 (Leipzig, Theol. F., Diss. Of April 23, 1968)
  • Sources on the history of Methodism in Saxony <1860-1900>. Leipzig 1968 (Leipzig, Theol. F., Hab.Schr. June 18, 1968)
  • Growing together towards Christ: Message from Bishops Walter Klaiber and Rüdiger Minor to the Central Conference 1992. Stuttgart: Christliches Verlags-Haus 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Versatile Methodist Theologian Died , Idea , posted Sept. 6, 2017.
  2. ↑ Freedom of Thought . In: Methodist Church . ( emk.de [accessed on September 6, 2017]).
personal data
SURNAME Minor, Rudiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Minor, Rudiger Rainer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German clergyman and Evangelical Methodist bishop
DATE OF BIRTH February 22, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH Leipzig
DATE OF DEATH 3rd September 2017
Place of death Dresden