The former Diocese of Roskilde () was a

diocese In Ecclesiastical polity, church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided Roman province, prov ...

within the Roman-Catholic Church which was established in

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some time before 1022. The diocese was dissolved with the Reformation of Denmark and replaced by the Protestant Diocese of Zealand in 1537. Today, the region once within the Diocese of Roskilde's jurisdiction is part of the

Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen The Diocese of Copenhagen is a Latin Church ecclesiastical territory or diocese of the Catholic Church named after its episcopal see, the Danish national capital, Copenhagen and covers all Denmark. The diocese also covers two Danish overseas po ...

. Within the

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, the region formerly within the ancient Diocese of Roskilde is today divided between the

Diocese of Copenhagen The Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish: ''Københavns Stift'') is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. The Bishop of Copenhagen is currently Peter Skov-Jakobsen, who replaced Erik Normann Svendsen in 2009. The main cathedral of ...

, the "new" Diocese of Roskilde, and the

Diocese of Helsingør The Diocese of Helsingør ( Danish: Helsingør Stift) is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. It comprises the Danish Capital Region except for the core municipalities of Copenhagen, Frederiksberg, Tårnby and Dragør. Dis ...

History

The episcopal see of the Bishop was

Roskilde Cathedral Roskilde Cathedral (), in the city of Roskilde on the island of Zealand (Denmark), Zealand (''Sjælland'') in eastern Denmark, is a cathedral of the Lutheranism, Lutheran Church of Denmark. The cathedral is one of the most important churches in D ...

but from 1167, when Bishop

Absalon Absalon (21 March 1201) was a Danish statesman and prelate of the Catholic Church who served as the bishop of Roskilde from 1158 to 1192 and archbishop of Lund from 1178 until his death. He was the foremost politician and church father of De ...

completed a new

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known as

Absalon's Castle Absalon's Castle, () was a fortification on the island of Slotsholmen in Copenhagen, located at the site of the later Copenhagen Castle and Christiansborg Palace. According to the chronicler Saxo Grammaticus, the castle was founded by Bishop Absal ...

on the small island of

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, he resided at the small town of ''Havn'', which later became the present Danish capital

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. The diocese originally included both the island of

Zealand Zealand ( ) is the largest and most populous islands of Denmark, island in Denmark proper (thus excluding Greenland and Disko Island, which are larger in size) at 7,031 km2 (2715 sq. mi.). Zealand had a population of 2,319,705 on 1 Januar ...

and

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(southern

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, then part of Denmark), but Scania was disjoined in 1060 and initially divided into the short-lived

Diocese of Dalby Dalby () is a locality and short-lived (11th century) former Latin Catholic diocese situated in Lund Municipality, Skåne County, Sweden with 6732 inhabitants in 2019. It is located about 10 km East-southeast of Lund, and about 20 km E ...

and 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 ...

, which absorbed the first and became the Metropolitan of (southern) Scandinavia.

List of bishops of Roskilde

* c. 1022–1029/30 Gerbrand (da) * c. 1030–late 1050s Avaco/Aage * c. 1060–1073/74 William of Roskilde * 1074–1088 Svend Nordmand * 1088–1124 Arnold * 1124–1134

Peder Peter is a common masculine given name. It is derived directly from Greek , ''Petros'' (an invented, masculine form of Greek ''petra,'' the word for "rock" or "stone"), which itself was a translation of Aramaic ''Kefa'' ("stone, rock"), the new na ...

* 1134–1137 Eskild * 1137–1138/39 Ricco/Rike * 1139–1158 Asker/Asser * 1158–1191

* 1191–1214 * 1214/15–1224/25 Peder Jacobsen * 1225–1249 Niels Stigsen * 1249–1254 Jakob Erlandsen * 1254–1277 Peder Bang * 1278–1280 Stig (uncertainty regarding name) * 1280–1290 Ingvar (uncertainty regarding name) * 1290–1300 Johannes/Johan/Jens Krag * 1301–1320 Oluf * 1321–1330 Johan/ Jens Hind * 1330–1344 Johan/Jens Nyborg * 1344–1350 Jacob Poulsen * 1350–1368 Henrik Gertsen * 1368–1395 Niels Jepsen Ulfeldt / Niels Jacobsen Ulfeldt * 1395–1416 Peder Jensen Lodehat * 1416–1431 Jens Andersen Lodehat * 1431–1448 Jens Pedersen Jernskæg * 1449–1461 Oluf Daa * 1461–1485 Oluf Mortensen Baden * 1485–1500 Niels Skave * 1500–1512 Johan Jepsen Ravensberg * 1512–1529 Lage Jørgensen Urne * 1529–1536 Joachim Rønnow

References

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Roskilde Roskilde ( , ) is a city west of Copenhagen on the Danish island of Zealand. With a population of 53,354 (), the city is a business and educational centre for the region and the 10th largest city in Denmark. It is governed by the administrative ...