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List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the
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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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; 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) *
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(1138 or 1137–1177 or 1179) *
Absalon Hvide 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 Denma ...
(1177 or 1179 – death 21 March 1201) *
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 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),
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of
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, previously Prince-Archbishop of
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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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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 Didrik Slagheck (died 24 January 1522) was a Danish archbishop, military commander during the Swedish War of Liberation, and often pointed out as an active participant in the Stockholm Bloodbath. Slagheck was the illegitimate son of a Westphalia ...
(1521–1522) *
Johan Weze Johan Weze (1490–13 June 1548), also known as Johan von Weeze, was a secretary of King Christian II of Denmark and a diplomat at the service of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V. In 1522, he was appointed Archbishop of Lund List of (arch)bis ...
(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 Peder Pedersen Winstrup (30 April 1605 – 28 December 1679) was Bishop of Lund in Scania. Winstrup was bishop there during a period spanning both Denmark, Danish and Sweden, Swedish sovereignty and periods of war when the land was contested. H ...
''see below'' ;In Sweden * 1658–1679 –
Peder Winstrup Peder Pedersen Winstrup (30 April 1605 – 28 December 1679) was Bishop of Lund in Scania. Winstrup was bishop there during a period spanning both Denmark, Danish and Sweden, Swedish sovereignty and periods of war when the land was contested. H ...
''see above'' * 1679–1687 –
Canutus Hahn Canutus Hahn (1633–1687) was a Swedish clergyman who served as bishop of Lund 1680–1687. Hahn was born on 13 November 1633 in Skye in Uråsa parish (Kronoberg County), son of a farmer Abraham Knutsson Hahn. He went to school in Kalmar and Và ...
* 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 Olof Celsius the Younger (15 December 1716 – 15 February 1794) was a Swedish civil servant, church official, politician and historian. He was professor of history at Uppsala University from 1747, bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1777, and mem ...
* 1794–1803 –
Petrus Munck Petrus Munck (14 July 1732 – 18 July 1803) was a Swedish professor and bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1794 to 1803. He was the father of doctor Eberhard Zacharias Munck af Rosenschöld and singer Brita Catharina Lidbeck. Biography Munc ...
* 1805–1811 –
Nils Hesslén Nils Hesslén (2 September 1728 – 13 April 1811) was a Swedish bishop, university professor, and a founder of the Royal Physiographic Society in Lund. He served as the bishop of the Diocese of Lund from 1805 to 1811. Biography Hesslén was bo ...
* 1811–1854 – * 1854–1856 – Henrik Reuterdahl * 1856–1865 –
Johan Henrik Thomander Johan Henrik Thomander (16 June 1798 – 9 July 1865) was a Swedish professor, bishop, translator and author. He received his doctorate in theology in 1836 and was elected to the eighteenth chair of the Swedish Academy in 1856. After his father' ...
* 1865–1897 – * 1898–1925 – Gottfrid Billing * 1925–1948 – Edvard Rodhe * 1949–1958 –
Anders Nygren Anders Theodor Samuel Nygren (15 November 1890 – 20 October 1978) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian. He was professor of systematic theology at Lund University from 1924 and was elected Bishop of Lund in 1948 (emeritus 1958). He is best known f ...
* 1958–1960 – Nils Bolander * 1960–1970 – * 1970–1980 – * 1980–1992 –
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* 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"
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