Subject: Re: map of german &quot;landeskirchen&quot;<br/>
Date: Apr 26, 2003 @ 23:29<br/>
Author: anorak222 (&quot;anorak222&quot; &lt;listen@...&gt;)<br/>
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<div id="ygrps-yiv-176864609">--- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;acroorca2002&quot; &lt;orc@o...&gt; wrote:<br/>
<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; --- In <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com">BoundaryPoint@yahoogroups.com</a>, &quot;chris schulz&quot; <br/>
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&gt; depends on what it is<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>&quot;Landeskirchen&quot; are the regional subdivisions of the Lutheran churches. Eac=
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h &quot;Landeskirche&quot; has a bishop. I think this applies to Germany only. How Lut=
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heran episcopal territories are organised in other countries I don&#39;t know.<br/>
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Lutheran protestants are about 50% of Germany&#39;s Christians. The other 50 ar=
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e Roman Catholics. The Roman church AFAIK has a worldwide system of &quot;Bistums=
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&quot; and &quot;Diözese&quot; (whatever these are called in other languages). Other Christ=
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ian denominations are negligible.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; are these political boundaries<br/>
&gt; or ecclesiastical boundaries<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Just ecclesiastic, but based on political boundaries of the pre-WW2 &quot;Länder=
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&quot; (states), hence the name. Since the territories remained unchanged, there =
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were bishops who had both East and West German parishes under them. The same=
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 is true for the Roman Catholic church, who continued their pre-WW2 territor=
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ies unchanged as well.<br/>
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<blockquote><span title="ireply"> &gt; perhaps parishes in that case<br/>
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 </span></blockquote>Not if by &quot;parish&quot; you mean the territory of one single church and its prie=
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st.<br/>
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Regards</div>