Dresden. The Frauenkirche gets a new pastor. He will fill the first regional church pastoral position that has been vacant since August and comes from Freiburg. The new name is Markus Engelhardt and was previously Freiburg city dean for 13 years. The 59-year-old introduced himself in Dresden with a prayer service, a church service and an interview.
“Together with Pastor Behnke and the many employees of the Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation, he will pass on the Frauenkirche’s message of peace in a perceptible way,” Provincial Bishop Tobias Bilz, who convinced the Chairman of the Board of Trustees for the selection of the new pastor. The Chairman of the Foundation Council, Joachim Hoof, is “very grateful to have won Markus Engelhardt, an outstanding theologian and pastor with many years of leadership experience, for the Frauenkirche Dresden Foundation “.
The church has not yet announced when Pastor Engelhardt will take the position at the Frauenkirche and the introductory service will take place. The 59-year-old will then succeed Pastor Sebastian Feydt, who was appointed superintendent of the Leipzig church district.
Markus Engelhardt was born on June 24, 1961 in Freiburg im Breisgau. He grew up as the son of a pastor’s family in Heidelberg and studied Protestant theology in Bern, Erlangen and Tübingen. Engelhardt had his first pastoral position for ten years in Constance on Lake Constance. In 2007 he was elected Dean of the Freiburg City Church District. Markus Engelhardt is married to a pastor.
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