Lars Müller-Marienburg (born 1977) is a

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- Austrian prelate who is the current Superintendent of the Diocese of Lower Austria in the

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Biography

Müller-Marienburg was born in

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in 1977. His family originated from the Transylvanian town of

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(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. His mother was a primary school teacher and his father a doctor. He also has three siblings. When he was 18, he went to

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for a year in a spiritual school. Müller-Marienburg studied law and later studied at the Protestant Theology School at the

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. 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

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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

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on the occasion of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity. 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. He was consecrated on October 15, 2016, by bishop Michael Bünker in the Church of the Resurrection in

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. The consecration was attended by the provincial governor Erwin Pröll and Helmut Krätzl, the auxiliary bishop emeritus of Vienna. Müller-Marienburg is the first superintendent of the

who is openly gay."Evang. Kirche: Erster homosexueller Superintendent"
''orf.at'', 10 October 2016. Retrieved on 21 December 2018.

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