List of bishops of Lund

Last updated October 01, 2023

List of (arch)bishops of Lund. Until the Danish Reformation the centre of a great Latin (arch)bishopric, Lund has been in Sweden since the Treaty of Roskilde in 1658. The Diocese of Lund is now one of thirteen in the Church of Sweden.

Catholic Episcopate

(all Roman Rite; some dates disputed according to the source)

Suffragan Bishops of Lund

Henrik (1060–1065? or 1048? – death 21 August 1060)
Egino (1065? – death 19 October 1072); ?former bishop of Dalby
Ricwald [ da; no ] (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)
Peder Saxesen [ sv; no; da ] (11 January 1224 – death 11 July 1228)
Uffe Thrugotsen [ sv; da; no; de ] (1228 or 1230 – death 15 December 1252)
Jakob Erlandsen (13 August 1253 – death 18 February 1274)
Trugot Torstensen [ sv; da ] (13 January 1276 or 1277 – death 2 May 1280)
Jens Dros [ sv; da ] (13 April 1280 or 1282 – death 28 April 1288 or 1299)
Jens Grand (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 Bremen (11 February 1310 – death 30 May 1327)
Isarnus [ sv; da; no; de; et; ru ] (Isarnus Takkon; 11 April 1302 – 12 June 1310), from Fontiès-d'Aude, previously Prince-Archbishop of Riga (Latvia, 19 December 1300 – 11 April 1302 or 1303), later Metropolitan Archbishop of Salerno (Italy) (12 June 1310 – death September 1310)
Esger Juul [ sv; da; de ] (15 June 1310 – death 17 January 1325)
Karl Eriksen [ sv; da ] (9 October 1325 – death 16 May 1334)
Peder Jensen (Galen) [ sv; no ] (27 February 1334 or 1336 – death 16 April 1355)
Jacob Kyrning (Thott) [ sv; de ] (5 October 1355 – death 23 January 1361)
Niels Jensen (Bild) [ sv ] (25 October 1361 – death 5 February 1379)
Magnus Nielsen [ sv; no ] (May 1379 – death 2 March 1390)
Peder Jensen (bishop) [ sv ] (7 October 1390 – death 31 December 1391)
Jakob Gertsen (Ulfstand) [ sv; no ] (13 July 1392 – death 18 April 1410)
Peder Mickelsen Kruse [ sv; no ] (28 July 1410 – death 4 April 1418)
Peder Lykke (Bille) [ sv; de ] (7 October 1418 – death 1436)
Hans Laxmand [ sv; da; no; de ] (21 May 1436 – death 30 May 1443)
Tuve Nielsen (Juul) [ sv; no ] (7 June 1443 – death 7 April 1472)
Jens Brostrup [ sv; no ] (18 April 1472 or 1474 – death 2 June 1497)
Birger Gunnersen [ sv; da; no ] (9 May 1497 or 1498 – death 23 November 1519)
Aage Jepsen Sparre (December 1519 – June 1532)
Jørgen Skodborg [ sv; da ] (5 January 1520 – 1521 or 1523)
Apostolic Administrator Cardinal Paolo Emilio Cesi (6 February 1520 – 12 July 1521), Cardinal-Deacon 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)^[1]
Torben Bille [ sv; da; no ] (27 July 1532 – death January 1553)

Lutheran superintendents and bishops

Christina Odenberg, Bishop 1997-2007, was the first woman to be bishop in Lund as well as within the church of Sweden. Christina-Odenberg.jpg — Christina Odenberg, Bishop 1997–2007, was the first woman to be bishop in Lund as well as within the church of Sweden.

1537–1551 – Frans Vormordsen [ sv; no ]
1551–1560 – Niels Palladius [ sv; da; no; de ]
1560–1577 – Tyge Asmundsen [ sv ]
1578–1589 – Niels Hvid [ sv; da ]
1589–1611 – Mogens Madsen [ sv; da ]
1611–1619 – Poul Aastrup [ sv ]
1620–1637 – Mads Jensen Medelfar [ sv; da ]
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 [ sv ]
1694–1714 – Mathias Steuchius
1715–1734 – Jonas Petri Linnerius [ sv ]
1734–1738 – Andreas Rydelius [ sv; da ]
1738–1740 – Carl Papke [ sv ]
1740–1747 – Henrik Benzelius
1748–1777 – Johan Engeström [ sv ]
1777–1794 – Olof Celsius the Younger
1794–1803 – Petrus Munck
1805–1811 – Nils Hesslén
1811–1854 – Wilhelm Faxe [ sv; de ]
1854–1856 – Henrik Reuterdahl
1856–1865 – Johan Henrik Thomander
1865–1897 – Wilhelm Flensburg [ sv; da; de ]
1898–1925 – Gottfrid Billing
1925–1948 – Edvard Rodhe
1949–1958 – Anders Nygren
1958–1960 – Nils Bolander
1960–1970 – Berndt Martin Lindström [ sv ]
1970–1980 – Olle Nivenius [ sv ]
1980–1992 – Per-Olov Ahrén
1992–1997 – Karl Gustav Hammar
1997–2007 – Christina Odenberg
2007–2014 – Antje Jackelén
2014–present – Johan Tyrberg

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↑ Johannesson, G. (1947). Den skånska kyrkan och reformationen. Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans (in Swedish). C. W. K. Gleerup. p. 14. Retrieved 14 August 2018. Johan Weze inleddes i domkyrkan den 23 febr. 1522. 20 Han hade utsetts genom postulation, ej genom elektion. Det förstnämnda förfaringssättet kom till användning i de fall, då den påtänkte kandidaten på grund av något i den kanoniska ...

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[Johannesson_1947_p._14-1] Johannesson, G. (1947). Den skånska kyrkan och reformationen. Skånsk senmedeltid och renässans (in Swedish). C. W. K. Gleerup. p. 14. Retrieved 14 August 2018. Johan Weze inleddes i domkyrkan den 23 febr. 1522. 20 Han hade utsetts genom postulation, ej genom elektion. Det förstnämnda förfaringssättet kom till användning i de fall, då den påtänkte kandidaten på grund av något i den kanoniska ...

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