Diocese of Helsingør

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Diocese of Helsingør
Leading clergyman: Bishop Lise-Lotte Rebel
Propsties : 13
cathedral St. Olai's Cathedral in Elsinore
Parishioners: 692,405 (December 31, 2016)
Residents: 1,002,815
Share of
Ev. in% of the population: 		69.1
Official Website: www.helsingørstift.dk /
Cathedral church

The Diocese of Helsingør ( Danish Helsingør Stift ) is a diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People's Church . It includes the Danish capital region with the exception of the cities of Copenhagen , Frederiksberg , Tårnby and Dragør . The diocese was separated from the diocese of Copenhagen on January 1, 1961 and is the youngest of the ten dioceses of the Danish People's Church. The main church is St. Olai's Cathedral in Helsingør .

The diocese includes 147 parishes, which are distributed over 13 provosts . With (as of January 1, 2017) 692,405 parishioners, which corresponds to 69.1% of the resident population, it is the diocese with the largest number of members in Denmark.

The current bishop has been Lise-Lotte Rebel since 1995 .

List of bishops

  • JB Leer-Andersen: 1961-1980
  • Johannes Johansen: 1980-1995
  • Lise-Lotte Rebel : 1995–

Provosts

The diocese has the following provosts :

  • Ballerup-Furesø
  • Fredensborg
  • Frederikssund
  • Frederiksværk
  • Gentofte
  • Gladsaxe-Herlev
  • Glostrup
  • Elsinore Cathedral
  • Hillerød
  • Høje Taastrup
  • Kongens Lyngby
  • Rudersdal
  • Rødovre-Hvidovre

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Folkekirkens medlemstal on the website of the Ministry of Churches.

Coordinates: 56 ° 2 ′ 8.5 ″  N , 12 ° 36 ′ 51.1 ″  E