Bishop Ackerman named leadership team for pastoral area Neuwied

News of December 4, 2021

Bishop Dr. Stephen Ackerman has named the management teams for 15 pastoral rooms to be built in the Diocese of Trier on January 1, 2022. 20 more to follow on January 1, 2023. Each team is headed by a priest as the dean, with one or two women and men working closely in management. In doing so, they each perform their own tasks assigned by the bishop.

Trier / Newwide. Earlier, after an exploratory phase lasting from January to July, Bishop Ackerman had formally heard the deaneries and parishes about the changes to come.

Pastors Peter Dorenbacher (64), Susan Schneider (54) and Michael Jagger (38) are part of the leadership team of the pastoral room at Newwide. Dorenbacher is currently the managing dean of Neuwied, he hails from Freisen-Grügelborn in the district of St Wendel (Saarland) and lives in Neuwied-Angers. Schneider has been a community official in Koblenz (Keselheim-Neuendorf-Lützel) for more than 25 years since his training as a graduate religious and social pedagogue. She comes from Erpel/Rhine and lives in Koblenz. Jagger is currently rented in Koblenz, comes from Andernach and lives in Cruft.

The areas of responsibility for the women and men who lead pastoral rooms in the future are diverse: they will support the parishes together with pastoral workers and staff and ensure that the results of the synod are implemented in a missionary, diaconal and Huh. local church development. In addition, they should set priorities within the framework of the framework model, bring together the perspective of pastoral care, caritas and other collaborative partners, and promote church spaces.

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The pastoral region Neuwied consists of the parish communities (PG) Neustadt-Horhausen, Waldbreitbach-Niederbreitbach-Kurtscheid, Bad Höningen-Rheinbrohl, Heimbach-Engers and St. Clemens as well as the parish of Dierdorf. Contains the parish of Magdalena Grosmyscheid. which was merged on 1 January. Isenberg (formerly PG Gromeischeid-Isenberg), the parish of St. Marianne Linz on the Rhine and the Hohe (formerly PG Linz), which merged on 1 January, and the parish of Neuved St. Mathias, which merged on 1 January (formerly PG St. Mathias Nuvid).

More information on all of the 16 Rustic Rooms’ leadership teams is available here https://www.bistum-trier.de/pfarreien-einrichtungen/pastorale-raeume/to find. The establishment of pastoral chambers is part of the implementation of the results of the Trier diocesan synod. You can find all the information about it here www.herausgerufen.bistum-trier.de, (UK)