Landesbischof
Bishop is the title of the clerical leader of some Protestant state churches in Germany. The term is based on the introduction of the sovereign church government of the Reformation period. Country gentlemen, who enforced the introduction of the new creed for their country, served in the sequence as a bishop, hence the term bishop. They led all the rights of the former bishop as so-called summus episcopus (Latin for: " General Bishop " ), until after the First World War in 1918, the " sovereign government of the Church " was omitted. Since then, acts in some country churches as a theologian Bishop. Other regional churches know as conducting the ministry / the bishop / bishop or the Church President ( feminine form: the Church President ), Church President or Secretary.
In Protestant theology a different understanding of apostolic succession as in the Roman Catholic church is. Both churches have in common is according to Reich Concordat, Article 16 of 1933 be required to serve an oath to the Constitution. It is made today of each prime minister.
- Country's bishops there are in the following churches: Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Brunswick,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover
- Evangelical Church in Central Germany,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in North Germany,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saxony,
- Evangelical Lutheran Church of Schaumburg -Lippe and
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg.
- Evangelical Church of Berlin -Brandenburg -Silesian Upper Lusatia
- Evangelical Church of Hesse Electorate - Waldeck and
- Evangelical Lutheran Church in Oldenburg.
- Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau,
- Evangelical Church of Anhalt,
- Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and
- Evangelical Reformed Church ( Synod of Evangelical Reformed Churches in Bavaria and Northwestern Germany ).
- Evangelical Church in the Rhineland and
- Evangelical Church of Westphalia.
- Bremen Evangelical Church.