Day of the lord (newspaper)
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| description | Catholic church newspaper for the Archdiocese of Berlin and the dioceses of Dresden-Meißen , Erfurt , Görlitz and Magdeburg |
| publishing company | St. Benno-Verlag , Leipzig ( Germany ) |
| First edition | May 27, 1951 |
| Frequency of publication | weekly |
| Sold edition | 21,048 copies |
| ( IVW Q1 / 2019) | |
| Editor-in-chief | Matthias Holluba |
| editor | The Archbishop of Berlin and the Bishops of Dresden-Meißen, Erfurt, Görlitz and Magdeburg |
| Web link | tag-des-herrn.de |
| Article archive | tdh-online.de |
| ISSN |
0492-1283 |
The Lord's Day is the weekly Catholic newspaper for the Archdiocese of Berlin and the dioceses of Dresden-Meißen , Erfurt , Görlitz and Magdeburg .
precursor
For the area of today's Archdiocese of Berlin, which until 1929 belonged to the Diocese of Breslau as the “Prince-Bishop's Delegation” , the Catholic Church Gazette of the Prince-Bishop's Delegation for Berlin, Brandenburg and Pomerania was published . After the conclusion of the Prussian Concordat, the titles were:
- Catholic Church Gazette for Berlin, Brandenburg and Pomerania (from the edition of October 6, 1929)
- Catholic Church Gazette of the Diocese of Berlin (from the edition of July 12, 1931)
- Catholic Church Gazette of the Diocese of Berlin (from the edition of February 7, 1932)
- Catholic Church Gazette for the Diocese of Berlin (from the edition of June 19, 1932)
For Saxony, the St. Bennoblatt, first published in 1927 as a supplement to the Sächsische Volkszeitung , can be regarded as a forerunner. However, this Catholic medium had to be discontinued in 1941.
Appeared in the GDR
On May 7, 1951, the Office for Information of the GDR issued the license document that allowed the St. Benno Verlag in Leipzig to publish a Catholic Sunday paper. The license holder was initially a single clergyman and from 1984 until the fall of the Berlin Bishops' Conference as a collective. The first issue appeared on May 27, 1951 . Instead of the four-page weekly publication planned by the Information Office, an agreement was reached on a fortnightly eight-page publication, which was retained until 1988. Distribution area was the entire GDR with the exception of the diocese of Berlin , which had its own diocese newspaper, the St. Hedwigsblatt . The newspaper could only be subscribed to. There was no public sale of church newspapers to postal newspaper kiosks in the GDR.
Appeared since 1989
The Lord's Day has been published weekly since 1989 , today in the Rhenish format with 20 pages and in full color. Since the reorganization of church structures in Germany after the end of the GDR in 1994, the Lord's Day has been the diocese newspaper of Dresden-Meißen, Erfurt, Görlitz and Magdeburg. Since April 6, 2014 there is a diocesan edition for the Archdiocese of Berlin.
Since the fall of the Wall, the newspaper has been cooperating in various constellations with other Catholic diocese newspapers, today in the diocese press publishing group with the church newspapers of the dioceses of Hamburg , Hildesheim , Osnabrück , Mainz , Limburg , Fulda and Aachen . The central editorial office in Osnabrück creates the cover for these diocese newspapers.
Edition
In the first quarter of 2018, the weekly newspaper had a sold circulation of 21,048 copies, of which 20,658 were subscribers.
Editors-in-chief
- 1951–1972 Josef Gülden CO (1907–1993) with the editors Elfride Kiel and Wilhelm Erben (1906–1973)
- 1973–1988 Franz Peter Sonntag (1920–1987)
- 1988–1995 Gottfried Swoboda (1943–2001)
- since 1995 Matthias Holluba.
License holder
- 1951–1974 Johann Hötzel (1901–1991), Bautzen
- 1975–1983 Georg Ahne (1922–1983)
- 1984–1990 the Berlin Bishops' Conference
Footnotes
- ^ IVW : Day of the Lord , accessed on April 24, 2019.