Protestant Churches (General)
Some pastors bore the merely honorific rank of provost, usually connotated with certain churches and traditionally maintained even after the Protestant Reformation (e.g. in the Evangelical Church of the old-Prussian Union and its successor Evangelical Church in Berlin-Brandenburg).
In certain Landeskirchen within the Evangelical Church in Germany the title is used for a pastor officiating as chairperson in a provostry (e.g. in the Lutheran Evangelical Lutheran State Church in Brunswick, Evangelical Lutheran State Church of Mecklenburg and in the united Evangelical Church in Hesse and Nassau and the Evangelical Church of the Church Province of Saxony). In the above-mentioned Lutheran churches a provostry is equal to a deanery, in the two united churches it is a unit comprising several deaneries.
Furthermore in the united Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg-Silesian Upper Lusatia the provost is the theological leader of the consistory.
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