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List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the Danish Reformation the centre of a great Latin (arch)bishopric,
Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and
) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...
has been in Sweden since the
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in 1658. The
Diocese of Lund The Diocese of Lund () is a diocese within the Church of Sweden which corresponds to the provinces of Blekinge and Skåne. There are 217 parishes within the diocese, the most significant number in any of the dioceses of the Church of Sweden. Th ...
is now one of thirteen in the
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.


Catholic Episcopate

''(all
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; some dates disputed according to the source)'' ;''Suffragan Bishops of Lund'' *
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(1060–1065? or 1048? – death 21 August 1060) * Egino (1065? – death 19 October 1072); ?former bishop of Dalby * (1072 or 1075 – death 26 May 1089) * Ascer (1089–1103 ''see below'') ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Lund'' * Ascer (''see above'' 1103 – death 5 May 1137) * Eskil (1138 or 1137–1177 or 1179) * Absalon Hvide (1177 or 1179 – death 21 March 1201) * Andreas Sunesen (1201–1222 or 1223) * (11 January 1224 – death 11 July 1228) * (1228 or 1230 – death 15 December 1252) *
Jakob Erlandsen Jakob Erlandsen (died 18 February 1274) was a Danish Archbishop of Lund (1254–1274) and the central character of the first great church conflict in Denmark. History Belonging to a wealthy magnate family ( Galen clan) that was related to Archb ...
(13 August 1253 – death 18 February 1274) * (13 January 1276 or 1277 – death 2 May 1280) * (13 April 1280 or 1282 – death 28 April 1288 or 1299) *
Jens Grand Jens Grand, ''the Firebug'' (Low German: ''Fürsate'', Swedish: ''Fursat''; about 1260 – 29 May 1327 in Avignon) was a Danish archbishop of Lund (1289–1302), titular Archbishop of Riga and Terra Mariana (1304–1310), and Prince-Archbishop ...
(18 March 1289 or 1290 – 30 March 1302), later * titular Prince-Archbishop of Riga (Latvia, 30 March 1304 or 1302 – 11 February 1310), Prince-Archbishop of
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(11 February 1310 – death 30 May 1327) * (Isarnus Takkon; 11 April 1302 – 12 June 1310), from
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, previously Prince-Archbishop of
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(Latvia, 19 December 1300 – 11 April 1302 or 1303), later Metropolitan Archbishop of
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(Italy) (12 June 1310 – death September 1310) * (15 June 1310 – death 17 January 1325) * (9 October 1325 – death 16 May 1334) * (27 February 1334 or 1336 – death 16 April 1355) * (5 October 1355 – death 23 January 1361) * (25 October 1361 – death 5 February 1379) * (May 1379 – death 2 March 1390) * (7 October 1390 – death 31 December 1391) * (13 July 1392 – death 18 April 1410) * (28 July 1410 – death 4 April 1418) * (7 October 1418 – death 1436) * (21 May 1436 – death 30 May 1443) * (7 June 1443 – death 7 April 1472) * (18 April 1472 or 1474 – death 2 June 1497) * (9 May 1497 or 1498 – death 23 November 1519) *
Aage Jepsen Sparre Aage Jepsen Sparre (–1540) was a Danish priest who was archbishop of Lund from 1523 to 1532. Sparre enrolled at the University of Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Mecklenburg-Vorpommern (MV; ; ), also known by its Anglicisation, ang ...
(December 1519 – June 1532) * (5 January 1520 – 1521 or 1523) *
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Cardinal
Paolo Emilio Cesi Paolo Emilio Cesi (1481–1537) was an Italians, Italian Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Cardinal (Catholicism), cardinal.Cardinal-Deacon A cardinal is a senior member of the clergy of the Catholic Church. As titular members of the clergy of the Diocese of Rome, they serve as advisors to the pope, who is the bishop of Rome and the visible head of the worldwide Catholic Church. Ca ...
of S. Nicola fra le Immagini pro illa vice Deaconry (6 July 1517 – 5 September 1534), later held various other apostolic administrator assignments, finally transferred Cardinal-Deacon of S. Eustachio (5 September 1534 – death 5 August 1537) * Didrik Slagheck (1521–1522) * Johan Weze (1522–1532) * (27 July 1532 – death January 1553)


Lutheran superintendents and bishops

* 1537–1551 – * 1551–1560 – * 1560–1577 – * 1578–1589 – * 1589–1611 – * 1611–1619 – * 1620–1637 – * 1638–1658 – Peder Winstrup ''see below'' ;In Sweden * 1658–1679 – Peder Winstrup ''see above'' * 1679–1687 – Canutus Hahn * 1688–1694 – * 1694–1714 –
Mathias Steuchius Mathias Steuchius (; 26 October 1644 – 2 August 1730) was Bishop of the Diocese of Lund, 1694 to 1714 and Archbishop of Uppsala in the Swedish Church from 1714 to his death. Steuchius was born in Fogdö, and grew up in Härnösand in northern ...
* 1715–1734 – * 1734–1738 – * 1738–1740 – * 1740–1747 – Henrik Benzelius * 1748–1777 – * 1777–1794 – Olof Celsius the Younger * 1794–1803 – Petrus Munck * 1805–1811 – Nils Hesslén * 1811–1854 – * 1854–1856 – Henrik Reuterdahl * 1856–1865 – Johan Henrik Thomander * 1865–1897 – * 1898–1925 – Gottfrid Billing * 1925–1948 – Edvard Rodhe * 1949–1958 – Anders Nygren * 1958–1960 – Nils Bolander * 1960–1970 – * 1970–1980 – * 1980–1992 – Per-Olov Ahrén * 1992–1997 – Karl Gustav Hammar * 1997–2007 – Christina Odenberg * 2007–2014 –
Antje Jackelén Antje Jackelén (; born 4 June 1955) is archbishop emerita and primate emerita ('' prima inter pares'') of the Church of Sweden, the national church. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received throu ...
* 2014–present –
Johan Tyrberg Johan Arvid Tyrberg (born 20 June 1963 in Tyringe) is a Swedish prelate, serving as the 69th bishop of the Diocese of Lund. He is the nephew of Bishop Emeritus Karl-Johan Tyrberg. Biography Tyrberg studied at Lund University and was ordained in ...


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Lund Lund (, ;"Lund"
(US) and
) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...
Bishops of Lund