Diocese of Ribe

The diocese of Ribe (Danish: Ribe stift ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People's Church .

The diocese extends along the North Sea coast of Jutland . Elof Westergaard has been a bishop since 2014 . The Ribe Cathedral is the episcopal church. As of January 1, 2017, 302,477 residents belonged to the Danish People's Church, which corresponds to 84.5% of the population.

The diocese is divided into eight provosts:

• Ribe Domprovsti
• Paints Provsti
• Varde Provsti
• Skads Provsti
• Skjern Provsti
• Grene Provsti
• Ringkøbing Provsti
• Tønder Provsti

history

Danish dioceses in the Middle Ages

After the first church in Haithabu / Schleswig , Ribe is the oldest church in Northern Europe. Around 860, the apostle Ansgar founded the first church here, but it was destroyed in 888. The diocese of Ribe was founded in 948 and, like Schleswig and Aarhus, was affiliated to the archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen as a suffragan. The construction of the stone cathedral began around 1100 during the term of office of Bishop Thure. In 1145 a cathedral chapter and a cathedral school were founded. During the reign of King Christian III. the Reformation was introduced in the 1530s . The diocese of Ribe was converted into an evangelical church province. It still encompassed not only the southwest of Jutland , but also the northwest of the Duchy of Schleswig, which developed from 1200 onwards as a fief (at times also in personal union) with the Kingdom of Denmark . The episcopal possessions south of Königsau (including Møgeltønder ) were secularized, but still formed exclaves of the kingdom until 1867.

When Northern Schleswig became an integral part of Denmark in 1920, the diocese of Ribe was reduced in size in favor of the newly created diocese Haderslev , whose main part had previously belonged to the diocese of Schleswig . The diocese had to hand over other areas to the diocese of Viborg . In contrast, it got back large areas of the Prussian district of Tondern , which had been in Prussia since 1867 and had to be ceded to Denmark after the referendum in Schleswig .

Bishops

→ Main article : List of the bishops of Ribe

Collegues

• 1658–1674 Hans Schack
• 1674–1683 Otto Diderik Schack
• 1683–1697 Frans Eberhard von Speckhan
• 1697–1711 Hans Schack
• 1711–1726 Henrik Ernst von Kalnein (1657–1726)
• 1726–1748 Christian Carl Gabel (1679–1748)
• 1748–1750 Holger Skeel (1699–1764)
• 1750–1754 Frederik Oertz
• 1750–1760 Georg Frederik von Holstein
• 1760–1768 Hans Schack (1735–1796)
• 1768–1781 Theodosius Levetzau (1742–1817)
• 1781–1790 Christian Urne (1749–1821)
• 1791–1796 Carl Frederik Hellfried
• 1796–1810 Werner Jasper Andreas von Moltke (1755–1835)
• 1811–1822 Hans Koefoed (suspended 1821)
• 1822–1828 Johan Carl Thuerecht Castenschiold (1787–1844)
• 1828–1852 Marius Sabinus Wilhelm Sponneck (1787–1874)
• 1852–1855 Hans Helmuth Lüttichau (1794–1869)
• 1855–1884 Henrik Christian Nielsen (1805–1885)
• 1884–1892 Hannes Kristján Steingrímur Finsen (1828–1892)
• 1892–1899 Johan Henrik Ahnfeldt (-1905)
• 1899–1921 Gustav Carl Vilhelm Heinrich Stemann (1845–1929)
• 1921–1937 Peter Herschend (1881–1963)
• 1937–1959 Ulrik Christian Friis (1890–1959)
• 1959–1977 Ebbe Morten Edelberg (1909–1977)

literature

• A. Taylor: Ancient See of Ribe in Denmark (Jutland) . In: Catholic Encyclopedia . The Encyclopedia Press, New York 1914.

Web links

• Diocese of Ribe (Danish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See the statistics on the website of the Danish Ministry of Churches
2. ↑ Christian Carl Gabel . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 5 : Faaborg – Gersdorff . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1891, p. 508 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
3. ↑ Hans Schack . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 15 : Scalabrini – Skanke . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1901, p. 27 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
4. ^ Theodosius Levetzau . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 247 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
5. ↑ Christian Urne . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 18 : Ubbe – Wimpffen . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1904, p. 90 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
6. ↑ Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke
7. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original dated November 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Werner Jasper Andreas Moltke 
8. ↑ Johan Carl Thuerecht Castenschiold
9. ^ Marius Sabinus Wilhelm Sponneck . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 16 : Skarpenberg – Sveistrup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1902, p. 233 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
10. ^ Hans Helmuth Lüttichau . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 10 : Laale – Løvenørn . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1896, p. 564 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
11. ^ Henrik Christian Nielsen . In: Carl Frederik Bricka (Ed.): Dansk biografisk Lexikon. Tillige omfattende Norge for Tidsrummet 1537-1814. 1st edition. tape 12 : Münch – Peirup . Gyldendalske Boghandels Forlag, Copenhagen 1898, p. 233 (Danish, runeberg.org ).
12. ↑ Hannes Finsen
13. ^ Johan Henrich Ahnfeldt
14. ↑ Johan Henrik Ahnfeldt ( Memento of the original from May 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
15. ^ Gustav Carl Vilhelm Heinrich Stemann
16. ↑ Peter Herschend
17. ↑ Ulrik Christian Friis
18. ↑ Ebbe Morten Edelberg