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Peter Regier: minister and elder; born 31 January 1798 in [[Heubuden (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Heubuden]], [[Prussia|Prussia]], the second child and eldest son of Elder [[Regier, Abraham (1774-1851)|Abraham Regier]] (1774-1851) and Elisabeth (Claassen) Regier (1776-1798). His mother died when he was four months old and within the year his father was married for the second time to Catharina Goossen (1780-1813). Peter married his cousin, Margaretha Regier (12 September 1799 - 25 January 1861, [[Tiegenhagen (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Tiegenhagen]], Prussia) on 22 October 1818 in Tiegenhagen, Prussia. She was the daughter of Elder [[Regier, Peter (1776-1814)|Peter Regier (1776-1814)]] and Agatha (Wiebe) Regier (1762-1827). Peter and Margaretha had fifteen children, but only four survived to adulthood: [[Regier, Peter (1825-1897)|Peter b. 1825]], [[Regier, Abraham (1831-1908)|Abraham b. 1831]], [[Regier, Cornelius (1835-1919)|Cornelius b. 1835]] and [[Regier, Gerhard (1837-1902)|Gerhard b. 1837]]. Peter died at Tiegenhagen on 9 March 1856.

Peter was chosen as preacher in 1825 and as elder in 1833 (the selection was by lot; he had received 104 votes and Jacob Wiebe of [[Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Ladekopp]] 102) by the Grosswerder Mennonite congregation. However, he declined to carry the office alone on the grounds that each of the component congregations was entitled to an elder of its own and that his father and Isaac Schulz, co-elders of the large district, had found the work too difficult. The Ladekopp congregation then chose Jacob Wiebe as elder, whereas the [[Rosenort Mennonite Church (Rosenort, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Rosenort congregation]] continued to be served by the elder of [[Tiegenhagen (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Tiegenhagen]] until 1857.

Peter Regier was active in the congregations. He conducted elections for elder at [[Fürstenwerder (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Fürstenwerder]] (1841), Ellerwald (1846), [[Heubuden (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Heubuden]] (1852, to replace his father, who died in 1851), and Ladekopp (1853). In 1853 he officiated at an election for minister in [[Ladekopp (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Ladekopp]], where his brother-in-law [[Regier, Peter (1806-1884)|Peter Regier]] of [[Mierau (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Mierau]] was chosen.

All four of Peter Regier's sons served in the ministry in the Grosswerder congregations: (1) Peter Regier, elder at Fürstenwerder; (2) Abraham Regier, elder 1855 at [[Tiegenhagen (Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)|Tiegenhagen]]; (3) Cornelius Regier, preacher at Tiegenhagen; (4) Gerhard Regier, deacon at Tiegenhagen (he declined the office of preacher to which he was chosen in 1881).
= Bibliography =
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