List of bishops of Lund

Lund Cathedral in c. 1870, before Helgo Zettervall's changes to the western end of the building.

Sculpture in Dalby Church of Egino, Bishop of Lund 1062–1075.

Absalon's gravestone in the monastery church in Sorø, Denmark, Absalon was Archbishop of Lund 1177–1201.

Torben Bille was Lund's and Denmark's last Catholic archbishop, removed from his office as a result of the Danish reformation in 1536.

List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the Danish reformation the centre of a great Latin (arch)bishopric, Lund has been in Sweden since the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The Diocese of Lund is now one of thirteen in the Church of Sweden.

Catholic Episcopate[]

(all Roman Rite; some dates disputed according to the source)

Suffragan Bishops of Lund

Henrik (1060–1065? or 1048? – death 1060.08.21)
Egino (1065? – death 1072.10.19); ?former bishop of Dalby
(1072?1075 – death 1089.05.26)
Ascer (1089–1103 see below)

Metropolitan Archbishops of Lund

Ascer (see above 1103 – death 1137.05.05)
Eskil (1138?1137–1177?1179)
Absalon Hvide (1177?1179 – death 1201.03.21)
Andreas Sunesen (1201–1222?1223)
(1224.01.11 – death 1228.07.11)
(1228?1230 – death 1252.12.15)
Jakob Erlandsen (1253.08.13 – death 1274.02.18)
(1276?1277.01.13 – death 1280.05.02)
(1280?1282.04.13 – death 1288.04.28?1299)
Jens Grand (1289?1290.03.18 – 1302.03.30), later * titular Prince-Archbishop of Riga (Latvia, 1304?1302.03.30 – 1310.02.11)), Prince-Archbishop of Bremen (1310.02.11 – death 1327.05.30)
= Isarnus Takkon (1302.04.11 – 1310.06.12), from Fontiès-d'Aude, previously Prince-Archbishop of Riga (Latvia, 1300.12.19 – 1302.04.11?1303), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy) (1310.06.12 – death 1310.09)
(1310.06.15 – death 1325.01.17)
(1325.10.09 – death 1334.05.16)
Peder Jensen I (1334?1336.02.27 – death 1355.04.16)
(1355.10.05 – death 1361.01.23-
(1361.10.25 – death 1379.02.05)
(1379.05 – death 1390.03.02)
Peder Jensen II (1390.10.07 – death 1391.12.31)
(1392.07.13 – death 1410.04.18)
(1410.07.28 – death 1418.04.04)
(1418.10.07 – death 1436)
(1436.05.21 – death 1443.05.30)
(1443.06.07 – death 1472.04.07)
(1472?1474.04.18 – death 1497.06.02)
(1497?1498.05.09 – death 1519.11.23)
Aage Jepsen Sparre (1519.12 – 1532.06)
(1520.01.05 – 1521?1523)
Apostolic Administrator Cardinal Paolo Emilio Cesi (1520.02.06 – 1521.07.12), Cardinal-Deacon of pro illa vice Deaconry (1517.07.06 – 1534.09.05), later held various other apostolic administrator assignments, finally transferred Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio (1534.09.05 – death 1537.08.05)
Didrik Slagheck (1521–1522)
Johan Weze (1522–1532)^[1]
(1532.07.27 – death 1553.01)

Lutheran Superintendents and Bishops[]

Peder Winstrup was bishop at the time the diocese of Lund went from Denmark to Sweden.

Wilhelm Faxe was bishop for 43 years (1811–1854), a period beaten only by bishop Ascer in the early Middle Ages.

Christina Odenberg, Bishop 1997–2007, was the first woman to be bishop in Lund as well as within the church of Sweden.

1537–1551 –
1551–1560 –
1560–1577 –
1578–1589 –
1589–1611 –
1611–1619 –
1620–1637 –
1638–1658 – Peder Winstrup see below
1676–1679 – Peder Winstrup see below

Denmark recaptured Scania 1676–1679, Peder Winstrup continued as Bishop during these years.

In Sweden

1658–1676 – Peder Winstrup see above
1679–1687 – Canutus Hahn
1688–1694 –
1694–1714 – Mathias Steuchius
1715–1734 –
1734–1738 –
1738–1740 –
1740–1747 – Henrik Benzelius
1748–1777 –
1777–1794 –
1794–1803 –
1805–1811 –
1811–1854 –
1854–1856 – Henrik Reuterdahl
1856–1865 –
1865–1897 –
1898–1925 – Gottfrid Billing
1925–1948 – Edvard Rodhe
1949–1958 – Anders Nygren
1958–1960 – Nils Bolander
1960–1970 – Berndt (Martin) Lindström
1970–1980 –
1980–1992 – Per-Olov Ahrén
1992–1997 – Karl Gustav Hammar
1997–2007 – Christina Odenberg
2007–2014 – Antje Jackelén
2014–present – Johan Tyrberg

References[]

^ Johannesson, G. (1947). Den skånska kyrkan och reformationen. Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans (in Swedish). C. W. K. Gleerup. p. 14. Retrieved 14 August 2018. Johan Weze inleddes i domkyrkan den 23 febr. 1522. 20 Han hade utsetts genom postulation, ej genom elektion. Det förstnämnda förfaringssättet kom till användning i de fall, då den påtänkte kandidaten på grund av något i den kanoniska ...

External links[]

[Johannesson_1947_p._14-1] Johannesson, G. (1947). Den skånska kyrkan och reformationen. Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans (in Swedish). C. W. K. Gleerup. p. 14. Retrieved 14 August 2018. Johan Weze inleddes i domkyrkan den 23 febr. 1522. 20 Han hade utsetts genom postulation, ej genom elektion. Det förstnämnda förfaringssättet kom till användning i de fall, då den påtänkte kandidaten på grund av något i den kanoniska ...

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