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List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the Danish Reformation the centre of a great Latin (arch)bishopric,
Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öre ...
has been in Sweden since the
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in 1658. The
Diocese of Lund The Diocese of Lund ( sv, Lunds stift) 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 Chur ...
is now one of thirteen in the
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.


Catholic Episcopate

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; 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 * Ricwald (1072?1075 – death 1089.05.26) * Ascer (1089–1103 ''see below'') ;''Metropolitan Archbishops of Lund'' * Ascer (''see above'' 1103 – death 1137.05.05) *
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(1138?1137–1177?1179) * Absalon Hvide (1177?1179 – death 1201.03.21) *
Andreas Sunesen Anders Sunesen (also ''Andreas'', ''Suneson'', ''Sunesøn'', Latin: ''Andreas Sunonis'') (c. 1167 – 1228) was a Danish archbishop of Lund, Scania, from 21 March 1201, at the death of Absalon, to his own death in 1228. He is the author of ...
(1201–1222?1223) * Peder Saxesen (1224.01.11 – death 1228.07.11) * Uffe Thrugotsen (1228?1230 – death 1252.12.15) *
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 Arch ...
(1253.08.13 – death 1274.02.18) * Trugot Torstensen (1276?1277.01.13 – death 1280.05.02) *
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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-Archbisho ...
(1289?1290.03.18 – 1302.03.30), later * titular Prince-Archbishop of Riga (Latvia, 1304?1302.03.30 – 1310.02.11)), Prince-Archbishop of
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, previously Prince-Archbishop of
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(Italy) (1310.06.12 – death 1310.09) * Esger Juul (1310.06.15 – death 1325.01.17) * Karl Eriksen (1325.10.09 – death 1334.05.16) * Peder Jensen I (1334?1336.02.27 – death 1355.04.16) * Jacob Kyrning (Thott) (1355.10.05 – death 1361.01.23- * Niels Jensen (Bild) (1361.10.25 – death 1379.02.05) * Magnus Nielsen (1379.05 – death 1390.03.02) * Peder Jensen II (1390.10.07 – death 1391.12.31) *
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(1392.07.13 – death 1410.04.18) * Peder (Mickelsen) Kruse (1410.07.28 – death 1418.04.04) * Peder Lykke (Bille) (1418.10.07 – death 1436) * Hans Laxmand (1436.05.21 – death 1443.05.30) * Tuve Nielsen (Juul) (1443.06.07 – death 1472.04.07) * Jens Brostrup (1472?1474.04.18 – death 1497.06.02) * Birger Gunnersen (1497?1498.05.09 – death 1519.11.23) *
Aage Jepsen Sparre Aage Jepsen Sparre ( 1460–1540) was a Danish priest who was archbishop of Lund from 1523 to 1532. Sparre enrolled at the University of Greifswald in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in 1483 and graduated in 1490.Jørgen Skodborg (1520.01.05 – 1521?1523) * ''
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(1534.09.05 – death 1537.08.05) * Didrik Slagheck (1521–1522) * Johan Weze (1522–1532) *
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(1532.07.27 – death 1553.01)


Lutheran Superintendents and Bishops

* 1537–1551 – Frans Vormordsen * 1551–1560 – Niels Palladius * 1560–1577 – Tyge Asmundsen * 1578–1589 – Niels Hvid * 1589–1611 – Mogens Mads * 1611–1619 – Poul Aastrup * 1620–1637 – Mads Jensen Medelfar * 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 – Christian Papke * 1694–1714 – Mathias Steuchius * 1715–1734 – Jonas Linnérius * 1734–1738 – Andreas Rydelius * 1738–1740 –
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* 1740–1747 – Henrik Benzelius * 1748–1777 –
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* 1777–1794 – Olof Celsius d.y. * 1794–1803 – Petrus Munck (af Rosenschiöld) * 1805–1811 – Niels Hesslén * 1811–1854 – Wilhelm Faxe * 1854–1856 – Henrik Reuterdahl * 1856–1865 –
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* 1865–1897 – Wilhelm Flensburg * 1898–1925 – Gottfrid Billing * 1925–1948 – Edvard Rodhe * 1949–1958 – Anders Nygren * 1958–1960 – Nils Bolander * 1960–1970 – Berndt (Martin) Lindström * 1970–1980 – Olle Nivenius * 1980–1992 –
Per-Olov Ahrén Per-Olov Ahrén (1926 in Forserum, Småland, Sweden – 22 March 2004) was a Swedish clergyman who served as bishop of Lund from 1980 to 1992. See also *List of bishops of Lund List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the Danish Reformatio ...
* 1992–1997 – Karl Gustav Hammar * 1997–2007 – Christina Odenberg * 2007–2014 – Antje Jackelén * 2014–present – Johan Tyrberg


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Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish province of Scania, across the Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipality, Scania County. The Öre ...
Bishops of Lund