Ralf Meister
| 1962 | born in Hamburg | |
| 1989 | first theological examination at Hamburg University | |
| 1990 | Vicariate Lauenburg/Elbe | |
| 1992 | Ordination in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church | |
| 1992 | worked in the "Church and City" department at the Seminar for Practical Theology at the University of Hamburg | |
| 1996 | Head of the Kiel editorial office of the Protestant Broadcasting Department of the North German Churches | |
| 2001 | appointed provost of the Lübeck church district | |
| 2008 | General Superintendent of the Berlin district | |
| since 2011 | Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Hanover | |
| since 2012 | Chairman of the Council of the Confederation of Protestant Churches in Lower Saxony | |
| since 2018 | Presiding Bishop of the United Evangelical Lutheran Church in Germany (VELKD) |
