The Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark or National Church, sometimes called the Church of Denmark, is the established, state-supported church in Denmark. The supreme secular authority of the church is composed of the reigning monarch and Denmark's Parliament, the Folketing. As of 1 January 2022, 73.2% of the population of Denmark are members, though membership is voluntary.
The Diocese of Copenhagen 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 diocese is the Church of Our Lady in Copenhagen.
Jacob Peter Mynster was a Danish theologian and clergy member of the Church of Denmark. He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1834 until his death.
Johan Christian Schønheyder was a Danish-Norwegian priest. He was the bishop of the Diocese of Trondhjem from 1788 until 1803.
The Church of Greenland, consisting of the Diocese of Greenland is the official Lutheran church in Greenland under the leadership of the Bishop of Greenland. Paneeraq Siegstad Munk became Bishop in 2020.
Peder Hansen was a Danish theologian and priest. He served as a bishop in both Norway and in Denmark from 1798 until his death in 1810. Hansen is the elder brother to Christian Frederik Hansen, the famous Danish architect.
The Right Reverend K. Reuben Mark is the present Bishop in Karimnagar and the sixth in succession and occupies the Cathedra of the Bishop placed in Karimnagar's CSI-Wesley Cathedral. Reuben Mark is currently a Council Member for the period 2015–2018 at the fully-ecumenical United Theological College, Bangalore. During the XXXVIth session of Church of South India Synod, Reuben Mark has been elected as Deputy Moderator for the triennium 2020-2023 succeeding V. Prasada Rao.
Peder Palladius (1503–1560) was a Danish theologian, Protestant reformer, and bishop of Zealand. As the first protestant bishop in Denmark, he oversaw the conversion of ecclesiastic affairs. He helped create the church ordinance which founded the Church of Denmark, produced a Danish translation of the Bible, and removed Catholic images and rituals from his diocese.
Jens Paludan-Müller was a Danish bishop, teacher and author. He served as the bishop of the Diocese of Aarhus between 1830 and 1845 and published a collection of his sermons. In 1799, he married Benedicte Rosenstand-Goiske (1775–1820), the daughter of the priest in Gunslev, Jens Rosenstand-Goiske. The couple had 9 children including the historian Caspar Paludan-Müller, the poet Frederik Paludan-Müller and the deacon Jens Paludan-Müller.
Jens Bloch was a Danish theologian and priest. He was a bishop in both Norway (briefly) and Denmark from 1804 until his death in 1830.
Eiler Eilersen Hagerup was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He served as a bishop in the Church of Norway, first in the Diocese of Bjørgvin from 1774 until 1778 and then in the Diocese of Christianssand from 1778 until his death in 1789.
Ole Tidemand was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin from 1757 until 1762 and then Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1762 until 1778. Bishop Tidemand always had powerful friends in Copenhagen, the capital of the Kingdom of Denmark-Norway. Most notably, the Dowager Queen Juliana Maria was a supporter of his. Tidemand was a student and colleague of Bishop Erik Pontoppidan and a leader in the pietist movement in Norway.
Jens Christian Spidberg was a Norwegian theologian and priest. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1759 until 1762. He was also a noted cartographer and student of the natural sciences. He wrote a dissertation that tried to reconcile theology and the natural sciences. He particularly spent time studying the northern lights, earthquakes, and volcanoes.
Jacob Kærup was a Danish theologian and priest. He served as a bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1733 until his death in 1751. He was one of the most diligent and conscientious bishops in the era of state-run pietism during the 1700s in Denmark-Norway under King Christian VI.
Peter Fischer-Møller is a Danish prelate who served as the Bishop of Roskilde from 2008 until 2022.
Kristian Mørch was a Greenlandic Inuit prelate who became Greenland's first bishop in 1993 after the restoration of the Diocese of Greenland. He is also considered as the mastermind behind the formation of the Church of Greenland, distinct from the Church of Denmark.
Marianne Gaarden is a Danish prelate who is the 21st and current Bishop of Lolland-Falster.
Christen Willumsen Worm was a Danish theologian and Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1711 until his death.
Thomas Skat Rørdam (1832–1909) was a Danish priest and theologian who was Bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1895 until his death. In the course of his ecclesiastical career, Rørdam served as a local priest in small parishes on Zealand, a parish priest at the Church of the Holy Ghost in Copenhagen, and as provost at Holmen Church before being instated as Bishop of Zealand. He was a decorated member of the Order of the Danneborg.
Thomas Reinholdt Rasmussen is a Danish theologian and current Bishop of Aalborg.
