Rüdiger Rainer Minor

Rüdiger Rainer Minor ( born February 22, 1939 in Leipzig) is a Protestant theologian and retired Bishop of the United Methodist Church ( UMC ).

Life

Rüdiger Minor studied theology at the Theological Seminary of the United Methodist Church in Bad Klosterlausnitz (1991 combined with the Theological Seminary in Reutlingen ) as well as at the Karl Marx University in Leipzig, where he received his doctorate in 1968 and his habilitation than three months later. In 1966 he was ordained as pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church, which in 1968 merged with the Evangelical Community United Methodist Church. From 1969 he was the first part-time and full-time lecturer from 1976 of Church History at the Theological Seminary Bad Klosterlausnitz, over which he presided as seminar director from 1984 to 1986. Later he worked as a lecturer at the Theological Seminary of the United Methodist Church in Moscow and in 2008 he was appointed professor at Emory University in the U.S..

Minor is since 1964 married to Johanna Gerlinde Minor and father of three children.

Episcopate

In 1986 Rüdiger Minor was elected to succeed Armin Härtel bishop of the Methodist Church in the GDR. He had until 1992, the first all-German Central Conference, the so-called union conference, after the reunion, held this office. On this Central Conference as a candidate for the office of the German Methodist Church Bishop Walter Klaiber and Minor. Klaiber was in the Federal Republic of Germany and West Berlin since 1989 United Methodist bishop. He has now been elected bishop of the Methodist Church in Germany. Minor followed the service allocation for the work in the territory of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). He became bishop of the diocese of East Eurasian European Central Conference with headquarters in Moscow in 1993. This office he held until in 2005 he retired. His successor in the episcopate for Eurasia is Hans Växby.

Writings

  • The Episcopal Methodist Church in Saxony. Leipzig 1968 ( Leipzig, Theol. F., Diss v. April 23, 1968 )
  • Sources for the history of Methodism in Saxony < 1860-1900 >. Leipzig 1968 ( Leipzig, Theol. F., Hab.Schr. V. June 18, 1968 )
  • Growing together to Christ: Message of the Bishops Walter Klaiber and Rüdiger Minor to the Central Conference 1992 Stuttgart: . Christian publishing house 1992
  • German
  • Person (Leipzig)
  • Methodist theologian ( 20th century)
  • Methodist theologian ( 21st century)
  • Methodist Bishop ( 20th Century)
  • Methodist Episcopal ( 21st century)
  • Born in 1939
  • Man
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