Education
Meister studied at the University of Hamburg and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Theology and Jewish Studies.
Meister studied at the University of Hamburg and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Theology and Jewish Studies.
He was ordained at Saint Michaelis Church, Hamburg on 28 May 1992. On Pentecost 2008 he was invested as General Superintendent of Berlin at the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, succeeding Martin-Michael Passauer, who retired. Meister"s investment as bishop will be held at the Marktkirche in Hanover on 26 March 2011.
He will succeed Margot Käßmann who stepped down as Landesbischof on 24 February 2010.
On 22 January 2005 he gave the "Wort zum Sonntag" on the German national television for the first time. Ralf Meister is married to Dagmar Ulrich-Meister and has three children, Juval, Lotta and Tom-Lasse.
