Maria Jepsen
Maria Jepsen (born 19 January 1945, in Bad Segeberg) is the former bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. On 4 April 1992 the synod of the Hamburg Ambit elected her bishop, the first Lutheran woman to be a bishop worldwide, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.
On 16 July 2010 she resigned due to allegations that she did not act on information about an abuse case in her ambit of the church in 1999.[1]
References[]
- ^ Kaman, Mathias (16 July 2010). "Missbrauchsskandal: Hamburger Bischöfin Jepsen tritt zurück". Die Welt.
External links[]
- Official Biography of Maria Jepsen (German)
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- 1945 births
- Living people
- People from Segeberg
- Bishops of Hamburg
- Female Lutheran bishops
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