List of the bishops of Schleswig

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The list of the bishops of Schleswig contains the chronological order of the bishops of Schleswig since the founding of the diocese of Schleswig in 947/948. At that time, Adaldag , Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen, organized the dioceses of Schleswig, Aarhus and Ripen . After Ulrich's death in 1624, no bishops of Schleswig were appointed until 1854, but (general) superintendents led the Lutheran Church in the Duchy of Schleswig as the supreme pastor.

Note on the official titles and areas

Initially, the dioceses of Aarhus, Ribe (Ripen) and Schleswig were suffragans of the Hamburg-Bremen archdiocese . In 1104 they were assigned to the ecclesiastical province of the newly raised archbishopric Lund .

From 1542 Lutherans officiated as bishops of Schleswig, partly they were theologians, but more Danish princes and princely sons, the v. a. should be princely provided by the episcopal income. Therefore, the actual pastoral care was incumbent on the Lutheran (general) superintendent. Most of the inhabitants of the Duchy of Schleswig converted to the Lutheran Church in the course of the Reformation. Between 1854 and 1864 the leading Lutheran clergyman held the title of bishop, which was customary in Denmark at the time, and his area of ​​office was called Stift Schleswig.

In 1868, one year after the Prussian annexation of Holstein and Schleswig as the province of Schleswig-Holstein , the Lutheran congregations of the province were combined in the new Evangelical Lutheran Regional Church of Schleswig-Holstein , one of the recognized Protestant regional churches in the Prussian state, which governed the sovereign church regiment (Summepiskopat) held. The leading clergyman again carried the title of general superintendent for Schleswig. In 1920 Nordschleswig was spun off and partly added to the Lutheran Ripen monastery and has since formed the newly founded Hadersleben monastery . Due to the separation of state and religion according to the Weimar Constitution , the sovereign church regime expired.

The new church order of the Schleswig-Holstein regional church from 1925 took this into account. Among other things, the leading clergy now carried the official title of bishop for Schleswig, alongside a bishop for Holstein . In 1933 the majority of the National Socialist German Christians deposed the bishop for Schleswig in the regional synod . The office of regional bishop of Schleswig-Holstein existed until 1945. In 1947 the regional church found its way back to the old church order and a new bishop for Schleswig was appointed. In 1977 the regional church of Schleswig-Holstein merged with three other Lutheran regional churches to form the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church , whereby the office of bishop for Schleswig was retained. In 2008 the office of bishop for Schleswig was merged with that of bishop for Holstein.

The few remaining, immigrant or converted Catholics in the Duchy of Schleswig took on the Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions from 1667 , which included all of Scandinavia and large parts of northern Germany. In 1709 the Vicariate was reduced to include most of its southern Elbe areas and henceforth operated as the Apostolic Vicariate of the North . In 1868 Schleswig-Holstein was separated from the vicariate and formed the Apostolic Prefecture Schleswig-Holstein . From 1920, North Schleswig was under the Apostolic Vicariate of Denmark, which was elevated to the Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen on April 29, 1953 . The Schleswig-Holstein prefecture continued in southern Schleswig-Holstein until it was incorporated into the Osnabrück diocese in 1929 . In 1994 Osnabrück ceded this acquired diocesan territory to the newly founded Archdiocese of Hamburg .

Catholic bishops and administrator

Lutheran bishops and superintendents

General superintendent for Schleswig's royal share

The general superintendents for the Duchy of Schleswig, which was a royal part - often also responsible for the Duchy of Holstein, a royal part - were initially in Flensburg , but from 1693 in Rendsburg . Separate general superintendents acted for the ducal portion of the duchies.

  • 1636–1668: Stephan Klotz (also Clotzius; Lippstadt , September 13, 1606– May 13, 1668, Flensburg), first general superintendent for Schleswig and Holstein royal share
  • 1668-1673: Bonaventura Rehefeld (also from Rehfeld; Kitzscher ., September 24, 1610 to 7 July 1673, Schleswig), only for Schleswig, from 1643 to 1645 Bremervörder Hofprediger the Administrator Frederick II. Of the archbishopric of Bremen
  • 1673–1678: Johann Hudemann ( Wewelsfleth , October 12, 1606– March 24, 1678), followed Rehefeld as general superintendent for Schleswig, he already served in the same position for Holstein from 1668 (full share)
  • 1678–1684: Christian von Stökken (also Støcken, Stöcken, or Stöken; Rendsburg, August 15, 1633– September 4, 1684, ibidem)
  • 1684–1709: Josua Schwartz (also Schwarz; Waldau in Pomerania, now Wałdowo, a district of Sępólno Krajeńskie , February 5, 1632– January 6, 1709, Rendsburg), initially general superintendent solely for Schleswig's royal share, he followed Just in 1689 (us ) Valentin Stemann as general superintendent also for Holstein royal share. In 1693 Schwartz moved the combined general superintendent to Rendsburg
  • 1709–1721: Theodor Dassov (also Dassau, Dassow, Theodorus Dassovius; Hamburg, February 27, 1648– January 6, 1721, Rendsburg), his administrative district also comprised the ducal portion of Schleswig that was withdrawn from the king after 1713/1720, the previously general superintendent Heinrich Muhlius served, who continued to serve in the ducal part of Holstein

General superintendent for Schleswig ducal share

In 1713, confirmed in 1720, the Danish king, as feudal lord, withdrew the co-regency in Schleswig from the dukes of Gottorf. Thus took over Theodor Dassov , previously only general superintendent for Schleswig royal share, the tasks in Schleswig ducal share. Muhlius continued to serve as general superintendent for Holstein in the ducal part.

Lutheran bishop and general superintendent for Schleswig

Bishops of Schleswig of the Evangelical Lutheran State Church Schleswig-Holstein

Bishops of the Schleswig district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

Bishops of the Schleswig and Holstein district of the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church

In 2008 the office of bishop of the Schleswig district was combined with that of the Holstein district.

  • 2008–2012: Gerhard Ulrich (born March 9, 1951 in Hamburg)
  • 2009–2012: Gothart Magaard (born November 1, 1955 in Flensburg) as authorized bishop

Bishops of the Schleswig and Holstein district of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Northern Germany

  • 2013–2014: Gothart Magaard (born November 1, 1955 in Flensburg) as bishop's representative
  • since 2014 Gothart Magaard

See also: Schleswig Cathedral

Remarks

  1. ↑ The following order based on a list of the bishops of Schleswig from the 11th century, cf. Johann Martin Lappenberg : About the chronology of the older bishops of the diocese of the Archdiocese of Hamburg . In: Archive of the Society for Older German History , 9, 1847, p. 397ff,, after Georg Waitz u. a. (Ed.): Scriptores (in Folio) 13: Supplementa tomorum I-XII, pars I. Hannover 1881, pp. 349–350 ( Monumenta Germaniae Historica , digitized version )
  2. ^ Stemann ( Copenhagen , June 27, 1629– May 20, 1689, Glückstadt ) only acted as general superintendent for the Duchy of Holstein (1688–1689). Stemann succeeded Hermann Erdmann in this office (also Herrmann; 1631–1687, officiated 1684–1687). Cf. Johann Heinrich Bernhard Lübkert, attempt at church statistics of Holstein , Glückstadt: Johann Wilhelm Augustin, 1837 , p. 57.
  3. ↑ His successors as general superintendent for Holstein ducal share were Georg Hinrich Reimarus (1733–1735), Anton Caspar Engel (1736–1748), Gustav Christoph Hoßmann (1749–1766) and Friedrich Franz Hasselmann (Haßelmann; 1766–1784). In 1773 the House of Gottorf exchanged Holstein ducal shares for the Danish county of Oldenburg , so that after the death of Hasselmann, general superintendent for Holstein ducal shares, in 1784, only one general superintendent was appointed for both duchies now ruled in personal union with the Kingdom of Denmark.

literature

  • EF Mooyer: On the chronology of Schleswig bishops , in: Year books for the regional studies of the Duchies of Schleswig , Volume 2, 1859, p. 15ff. ( Digitized version )
  • Carsten Erich Carstens : The general superintendents of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Schleswig-Holstein. From the Reformation to the present , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg History (ZSHG), vol. 19 (1889), pp. 1–112.
  • Carsten Erich Carstens: Correction [to Volume 19: Die Generalsuperintendenten], in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein-Lauenburg History (ZSHG), vol. 20 (1890), p. 390.
  • Johann Heinrich Bernhard Lübkert: An attempt at church statistics of Holstein , Glückstadt: Johann Wilhelm Augustin, 1837.
  • Friedrich Volbehr : The clergy of the Holstein general superindenture from 1848 to 1871 , in: Journal of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History (ZSHG), vol. 2 (1872), pp. 220-291.