Diocese of Funen

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The Diocese of Fyn (Danish Fyens Stift ; formerly also Odense Stift ) is a diocese in the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People's Church with its seat in Odense . St. Knud's Cathedral in Odense serves as the episcopal church . Tine Lindhardt has been the bishop since November 4, 2012, as the successor of Kresten Drejergaard, who has retired .

The island of Funen and some offshore islands such as Langeland and Ærø belong to the area of ​​the diocese . It is in eleven deaneries divided. As of January 1, 2017, 396,637 residents belonged to the Danish People's Church, which corresponds to 80.1% of the population.

history

Danish dioceses in the Middle Ages

The Diocese of Othinia (Latin name of Odense) was founded in 988 by the Diocese of Schleswig , which was itself a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen . In the 11th century, the Archbishops of Hamburg-Bremen fought with the Archbishops of Canterbury over jurisdiction. The first historically tangible Bishop was the Englishman Reginbert (also Reginar or Reiner I. ) that the Anglo-Scandinavian king Cnut the Great by the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1022 Alnoth was consecrated. Archbishop Unwan of Bremen, however, managed to secure the connection to his archbishopric. Ruled from Roskilde from 1072 , the diocese belonged to the church province of Lund from 1104 , which until then had also been the suffragan of the Hamburg-Bremen archdiocese.

In the Middle Ages, the cathedral was of particular importance as the grave church of King Canute the Holy , who was slain in 1086 in the previous building of the church.

After the Reformation , the Lutheran diocese of Funen was established in place of the Catholic diocese . The first Lutheran bishop (initially with the title of superintendent ) was the important Danish reformer Jørgen Jensen Sadolin in 1537 . With the Reformation, the island of Fehmarn was eliminated from ecclesiastical jurisdiction.

In 1803 Lolland and Falster were separated from the diocese to form the new diocese of Lolland-Falster . The islands of Ærø and Als were separated in 1819 to form the Alsen-Ærø diocese , which only existed until 1864; then Ærø came back to the Diocese of Funen (Als to the Diocese of Schleswig , 1922 to the Diocese of Haderslev ).

See also

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Funen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Statistics on the website of the Danish Ministry of Churches