 1589] and Lunenburg-Celle [est.1531] Lutheran state churches with subdivisions of its own), with its consistory based in Hanover city, (4) the Loccum jurisdiction (Bezirk Loccum), (5) the Osnabrück city jurisdiction (Bezirk Osnabrück-Stadt) and (6) the Osnabrück land jurisdiction (Bezirk Osnabrück-Land).All these churches were state churches in the Kingdom of Hanover, with the king being "summus episcopus" (Supreme Governor of the Lutheran churches), but else without any joint bodies.