Church of the Redeemer, Jerusalem
The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer (
Built on land given to King William I of Prussia (after 1870
From Jerusalem came the light in splendor from which the German nation became great and glorious; and what the Germanic peoples have become, they became under the banner of the cross, the emblem of self-sacrificing charity.[5]
Redeemer Church was closed for services from the end of May 1940 until 1950, when first the Palestinian Lutheran congregation resumed services, and later the Evangelical congregation of German language followed.[6]
In the garden next to the church is a memorial marking the location of the crusader headquarters of the
Archaeological park
The archaeological park "Durch die Zeiten" ("Through the centuries") below the nave of the Church of the Redeemer, opened in November 2012, offers the possibility to experience more than 2,000 years of history of the city of Jerusalem by walking through it. The archaeological excavations, conducted by
The adjoining cloister of the vicarage maintains a museum for more information and exhibits on the city's history.
Pastors and provosts
Beginning in 1852, a pastor served the German-speaking Protestant congregation in Jerusalem. Starting in 1871, the congregation convened in the Muristan Chapel, moving to Redeemer Church upon its opening. These pastors are ranked
The church ordained the first Palestinian woman pastor in the Holy Land, Sally Azar, on 22 January 2023.[8] Azar will head the English-speaking congregation in the church and be one of five ordained female leaders in the Middle East.[8]
List of pastors and provosts with their terms:[9][10]
- 1852–1866 Friedrich Peter Valentiner (*1817–1894*)
- 1866–1869 Carl Hoffmann (*1836–1903*), nephew of Christoph Hoffmann
- 1870–1876 Hermann Weser (*1842–1911*)
- 1876–1884 Carl Reinicke (*1850–1915*)
- 1885–1895 Carl Schlicht (*1855–1930*)
- 1895–1903 Paul Hoppe (*1856–1937*), ranked provost since 1898
- 1903–1910 Wilhelm Bussmann (*1864–1936*)
- 1910–1921 Friedrich Jeremias (*1868–1945*), interned by the British forces since 1918, later exiled, father of Joachim Jeremias
- 1921 Gustaf Dalman (per pro)
- 1921–1922 Albrecht Alt
- 1923–1930 Hans Wilhelm Hertzberg (*1895–1965*)
- 1930–1938 Ernst Rhein (*1885–1969*)
- 1938–1954 Johannes Doering (*1900–1969*), interned by the British forces by end of May 1940 till 1945
- 1954–1960 Joachim Weigelt
- 1960–1965 Carl Malsch (*1916–2001*), simultaneously spiritual head of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Jordan (and the Holy Land) (ELCJ)
- 1965–1971 Hansgeorg Köhler, simultaneously spiritual head of ELCJ
- 1971–1979 Helmut Glatte, until 1977 simultaneously spiritual head of ELCJ
- 1979–1985 Jürgen Wehrmann
- 1985–1991 Johannes Friedrich
- 1991–2001 Karl-Heinz Ronecker
- 2001–2006 Martin Reyer
- 2006–2012 Uwe Gräbe
- 2012– Wolfgang Schmidt
See also
References
- ^ Ronecker, Karl-Heinz, Lutheran Church of the Redeemer Jerusalem, Verlag Schnell+Steiner, Regensburg 1997, p. 2
- ^ Adrian J. Boas, Jerusalem in the Time of the Crusaders, (Routledge, 2001), p.125.
- ^ Marian Kent, Great Powers and the End of the Ottoman Empire, (Routledge, 1996) p.112.
- ^ Paul Charles Merkley, The Politics of Christian Zionism, (Routledge, 1998) p.32
- ^ Alfred Sidney Johnson, et al., The Cyclopedic review of current history, (Garretson, Cox & Co., 1898) p. 935
- ISBN 3-374-01706-1.
- ^ Abraham Ezra Millgram, Jerusalem Curiosities, (Jewish Publication Society, 1990) p.30.
- ^ a b "Lutherans ordain first Palestinian woman pastor in Holy Land". AP NEWS. 2023-01-22. Retrieved 2023-01-22.
- ^ Gottfried Mehnert, Der Englisch-Deutsche Zionsfriedhof in Jerusalem und die Deutsche Evangelische Gemeinde Jerusalem. Ein Beitrag zur Ökumenischen Kirchengeschichte Jerusalems, (= Zeitschrift für Religions- und Geistesgeschichte, Beihefte; vol. XV), Leiden: Brill, 1971, p. 51.
- ISBN 3-7655-9807-0.
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