Lars Müller-Marienburg

Lars Müller-Marienburg (born 1977) is a German-Austrian prelate who is the current Superintendent of the Diocese of Lower Austria in the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria.

The Right Reverend

Lars Müller-Marienburg
Superintendent of Lower Austria
ChurchEvangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria
DioceseLower Austria
ElectedJune 2016
Installed2016
PredecessorPaul Weiland
Orders
Ordination2010
Consecration15 October 2016
by Michael Bünker
Personal details
Born1977
Ansbach, Bavaria, West Germany
NationalityAustrian
DenominationLutheran

Biography

Müller-Marienburg was born in Ansbach, Bavaria, West Germany in 1977. His family originated from the Transylvanian town of Feldioara (Marienburg, in German). His grandfather was responsible for adding the surname Marienburg to Müller in the 1950s as a reminder of the family's home city.[1] His mother was a primary school teacher and his father a doctor. He also has three siblings.[2]

Consecration of Lars Müller-Marienburg by Bishop Michael Bünker.

When he was 18, he went to Canada for a year in a spiritual school. Müller-Marienburg studied law and later studied at the Protestant Theology School at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.[3] He graduated in 2007 and was enrolled in the Vicarate, which is a step for a Protestant candidate for ordained pastoral ministry. He spent his Vicariate in Linz and in Pöttelsdorf. In 2010 he was ordained priest and became pastor of the Protestant parish of Innsbruck-Auferstehungskirche. In 2011 he delivered a sermon in Innsbruck Cathedral on the occasion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.[4]

In June 2016, Müller-Marienburg was elected in the fifth round of elections as the successor of Paul Weiland, who died in 2015, as Superintendent of the Diocese of Lower Austria, with 47 of the 70 votes.[5] He was consecrated on October 15, 2016 by bishop Michael Bünker in the Church of the Resurrection in Wiener Neustadt. The consecration was attended by the provincial governor Erwin Pröll and Helmut Krätzl, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Vienna.[6]

Müller-Marienburg is the first superintendent of the Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Austria who is openly gay.[7]

References
  1. Schoger, C. "„Siebenbürgen ist mir wichtig“: Lars Müller-Marienburg, Superintendent in Niederösterreich", Siebenbuerger, Munich, 04 December 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  2. "Müller-Marienburgs Weg zum Superintendenten", noe.orf.at, 16 October 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  3. "Superintendent: „Zu allen Zeiten mit Gott leben“ ", noe.orf.at, 31 October 2017. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  4. "Predigt zur Gebetswoche für die Einheit der Christen", predigtpreis, 20 January 2011. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  5. "Erster offen schwuler Landesbischof in Österreich", GGG.at, 10 October 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  6. "Evangelischer Superintendent von Niederösterreich Müller-Marienburg in sein Amt eingeführt", Evangelical Methodist Church in Austria, 15 October 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
  7. "Evang. Kirche: Erster homosexueller Superintendent", orf.at, 10 October 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.
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