Deanery

A Dean's Office (formerly partly deanery, from Latin decem to decanatus, ten ': originally an area of about ten parishes ) is the office or the district of a dean or deans and thus above all the concept of an ecclesiastical administrative unit.

Roman Catholic Church

According to the Canon Law of the Roman Catholic Church deaneries are a possible subdivision of a diocese. At a deanery several neighboring parishes can be joined together, with the primary objective to promote the pastoral care through common action. Most existing today deaneries have grown historically.

The Dean's Office is faced with the dean or dean, of the full-time employees ( priests, deacons, Pastoralreferent indoor and speakers and community speakers and referees ) and the Dekanatsrat is determined by the Dean's Office Conference ( also called Conveniat or Pastoral Conference ) support.

The main tasks of the Deanery are:

• Contact with the diocesan level
• Implementation of diocesan planning
• Specialized pastoral services ( marriage preparation, youth ministry, adult education, Roman Catholic. Schools)
• Ecumenical contacts
• Information and Public Relations

The Office of the Dean / Dean always wearing a priest of the deanery, usually one of the pastors of the parishes located in the Dean's Office. The Dean is elected by the Deanery Conference and thus proposed to the Bishop for appointment, which then appoints the dean. The main task of the Dean is the promotion and coordination of common pastoral activity within the deanery.

Evangelical churches

Some German regional churches know the regional division into deaneries. These include the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Baden, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Württemberg, the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Bavaria, the Evangelical Church of the Palatinate and the Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau. Each deanery is headed by a dean.

In other Protestant churches, deaneries are called church circle or provost. From the Dean's Office as ecclesiastical supervision of Dean District however, the term church district to distinguish ( for example in Baden and Württemberg). It is the entity whose territory but is generally congruent with the dean's office. In Austria, the Presbytery is the Roman Catholic Deanery closest, but without right of visitation.

Anglican churches

Many Anglican churches such as the Church of England share their Archidiakonate ( Archdeaneries, Erzdekanate ) in deaconries (English deaneries ), as Sprengel several parishes ( parishes ). There are also more formal term Rural deanery ( "Land deanery " ), the Superintendent is then called Rural Dean ( "Land dean " ) - in urban areas also the title of Area Dean continues in some dioceses it ( " Area Dean " ) by. The establishment of the Rural deaneries is old and originally corresponded to the breakdown of the Hundreds, Swedish Harde ( " hundreds "). The present deanery boundaries of the Church of England back to the archdeaconries and Rural deaneries Act 1874 ( 37 & 38 Vict. , Cap. 63).

The Deanery Church of England is led by a synod, which projects the Dean.