Diocese of Lund - Citizendia

The Diocese of Lund is the southernmost diocese in the Church of Sweden. (lɵnd is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town has 76188 inhabitants out of a muncipal total of 105000 The Church of Sweden (Svenska kyrkan Ruoŧa girkui is the largest church in Sweden. The territory of the diocese corresponds to the provinces of Blekinge and Scania. The provinces of Sweden, Landskap, are historical geographical and cultural regions is a one of the Provinces of Sweden ( landskap) situated in the south of the country Scania ( in Swedish and Danish) is a geographical region on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a traditional province ( There are 217 parishes within the diocese, the largest number in any of the dioceses of the Church of Sweden. A parish is a Local church; it is an administrative unit typically found in episcopal or presbyterian churches The present bishop of Lund is Antje Jackelén. Antje Jackelén, born June 4, 1955 in Herdecke, Germany, is the Bishop of Lund in Sweden. She in 2007 succeeded Christina Odenberg, the first female bishop in Sweden. Christina Odenberg (born March 26, 1940) is the retired Bishop of the Diocese of Lund in Sweden between 1997 and 2007 "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation.

History

The diocese was formed in 1060, in what was then Danish territory, by separation from the Diocese of Roskilde. The Kingdom of Denmark ( ˈd̥ænmɑɡ̊ (archaic ˈd̥anmɑːɡ̊ commonly known as Denmark, is a country in the Scandinavian region of northern Europe Roskilde (Italian Roeskilde Roschildia is a Catholic Titular see. The provinces of (north-western) Scania and Halland were under its jurisdiction. Scania ( in Swedish and Danish) is a geographical region on the southernmost tip of the Scandinavian peninsula, a traditional province ( is one of the traditional Provinces of Sweden ( landskap in Swedish on the western coast of Sweden.

The two other provinces of the Scanian lands, Blekinge and Bornholm, were on the other hand under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Dalby. This region should not be confused with Skånland in Norway Official status When Skåneland was an official entity in its original Danish is a one of the Provinces of Sweden ( landskap) situated in the south of the country Bornholm (b̥ʌnˈhʌlˀm or [bɔʀnˈhɔlˀm]) ( Old Norse: Burgundarholm ' is a Danish Island in the Baltic Sea located At the earliest in 1067, the Dalby diocese was however merged into the Lund diocese.

In 1104, the diocese became the archdiocese of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. In many rites of the Roman Catholic Church and in Anglican churches, a diocese is an administrative territorial unit administered by a Bishop. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Norway got its own archbishop at Nidaros in 1152, and Sweden at Uppsala in 1164, although the Swedish archbishop remained for a long time nominally subordinate to the archbishop of Lund. Nidaros was the old name of Trondheim (Trond(hjem sometimes Drontheim a city of Norway, in the Middle Ages. "Sverige" redirects here For other uses see Sweden (disambiguation and Sverige (disambiguation. Uppsala ˈɵpˌsɑːla (older spelling Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County ( Uppsala län) and the fourth largest city of At the time of the Reformation in 1536, the office of archbishop was abolished in Denmark, and Lund was demoted to an ordinary diocese. The Protestant Reformation was a reform movement in Europe that began in 1517 though its roots lie further back in time Initially, the Lutheran bishops were called superintendents. Lutheranism is a major branch of Western Christianity that identifies with the teachings of the sixteenth-century German reformer Martin Luther

In 1658 Lund, together with the Scanian lands fell under the government of Sweden (never to be reclaimed, except for short intervals during later wars), and Lund became subordinate to the archbishop of Uppsala. (lɵnd is a city in the province of Scania, southern Sweden. The town has 76188 inhabitants out of a muncipal total of 105000

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article Lunds stift from Nordisk Familjebok , in Swedish
"Lund". Nordisk familjebok (en Nordic familybook is a Swedish Encyclopedia, published between 1876 and 1957 Catholic Encyclopedia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, also referred to today as the Old Catholic Encyclopedia, is an English-language Encyclopedia published by The Encyclopedia (1913). New York: Robert Appleton Company.

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