Diocese of Copenhagen (Evangelical Lutheran)
The Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish Københavns Stift ) is a diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People's Church with its seat in Copenhagen . The Bishop of Copenhagen functions as primus inter pares among the Danish bishops . The church minister and formally the queen are the administrative head of the church .
The central church of the diocese of Copenhagen is the Copenhagen Frauenkirche , also called Copenhagen Cathedral .
In addition to the city of Copenhagen, the neighboring municipalities of Frederiksberg , Tårnby and Dragør as well as the island of Bornholm belong to the area of the diocese . The diocese is in nine deaneries divided.
history
Instead of the diocese of Roskilde , established in 991, the Lutheran diocese of Zealand was established during the Reformation in 1537 . The superintendents (they only reassumed the title of bishop in the 17th century) resided in Copenhagen (like most of their predecessors) because they had to teach as professors at the university, but they had Roskilde Cathedral as their main church. They had the function of a primus inter pares among the Danish bishops.
The diocese area comprised the Baltic Sea islands of Zealand and Møn , but no longer the long-standing Pomeranian Rügen . In 1660 the island of Bornholm was added, which until then had belonged to the diocese of Lund . The Faroe Islands (until 1990), Greenland (until 1993) and other overseas territories also belonged to the diocese.
Since the beginning of the 20th century there had been plans to divide the Diocese of Zealand, whose population had increased sharply. Since 1920, Minister of Education, Jens Christian Christensen, established a new diocese. After lengthy disputes in the Folketing , the larger but less populated diocese of Roskilde was founded on November 22, 1922 by royal order . At the same time, the Diocese of Zealand became the Diocese of Copenhagen. The last Bishop of Zeeland, Harald Ostenfeld , continued to serve as Bishop of Copenhagen until 1934.
In 1961, the northern part of the capital region was removed from the diocese to create the diocese of Helsingør .
For the bishops before 1922 see List of Bishops of Roskilde .
Bishops
- 1922–1934 Harald Ostenfeld
- 1934–1960 Hans Fuglsang-Damgaard
- 1960–1975 Willy Westergaard Madsen
- 1975-1992 Ole Bertelsen
- 1992–2009 Erik Norman Svendsen
- since 2009 Peter Skov-Jakobsen
Web links
- Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ See Harald Jørgensen: Københavns Stift i historisk perspective , 1997 ( online resource )