Diocese of Lund
The Diocese of Lund ( Lund's Swedish pen ) is one of the thirteen dioceses within the Church of Sweden. It consists of 216 parishes ( församlingar ), which in turn are grouped into 18 church districts. Geographically extends the diocese of the historical provinces of Skåne and Blekinge. Bishop's seat is the city of Lund by Lund Cathedral as Bishop Church. Since 2007, Antje Jackelén Bishop of Lund.
History
The diocese was formed shortly after the introduction of Christianity in Sweden. For the formal founding by the Danish king Sven Estridsson it came in 1060 with the division of the Diocese of Roskilde. For this, the diocese of Lund and, with the diocese under Bishop Dalby Egino another diocese in Skåne, which Ostschonen, Blekinge and Bornholm comprised originated not far from the Lunder bishopric. After the death of Bishop Henry orkadischen in 1066 Egino moved to Lund, and the city became the sole bishop's seat. The new diocese was, like all of Scandinavia, placed under the jurisdiction of the archbishop and thus the Archdiocese of Hamburg -Bremen.
Already 1052/53 requested the Danish King Sven Estridsson own ecclesiastical province of his kingdom. Archbishop Adalbert I (1043-1072) of Bremen resisted the reduction of his jurisdiction. Since after the confirmation of Leo IX privilege. of 1053, which called except Denmark and Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Greenland, the respective Archbishop of Bremen only have jurisdiction over these Scandinavian countries had been transferred personally, this resistance was ultimately unsuccessful. Since Hamburg -Bremen had virtually no own suffragans, Adalbert saw his position at all endangered. Therefore, he followed the plan to demand in return for the loss of jurisdiction, the Patriarchate dignity that used to extend over several ecclesiastical provinces. But even this was denied.
Archdiocese
Adalbert's successor, Archbishop Liemar, which had its headquarters in Bremen, took care of a zealous followers of the emperor Henry IV to this question a little. During the schism Clement III. ( Guibert of Ravenna) against Gregory VII could operate again setting up your own ecclesiastical province of the Danish king Erik Ejegod in connection with his efforts for the canonization of his half brother Knud Lavards at Urban II. Knud was canonized in 1101 by Pope Paschal II, and 1103 brought the cardinal legate Alberic Asker bishop of Lund for the first metropolitans. 1103, work began on the construction of the cathedral church of the bishop as a representative established in 1104 Archdiocese. A lost certificate of Paschal II rewrote the jurisdiction powers. Therefore, until today it is debatable whether Askers had jurisdiction over Scandinavia included or only Denmark. It is now but many believe that the archdiocese was responsible for all of Scandinavia.
On the First Lateran Council led Archbishop Adalbert II of Hamburg -Bremen in 1123 a process due to the shortening of its Metropolitan rights. At the request of Henry V. Pope Calixtus II he confirmed the jurisdiction of Norway and Sweden. Emperor Lothar III. reached even a repeal of the Ecclesiastical Provinces of Lund and Gniezno with Pope Innocent II But even Pope Eugene III. sent the cardinal legate Nicholas Breakspear, the later Pope Adrian IV was to Norway and Sweden, to organize the churches there a province ever own. So Lund archbishopric was again and remained so until the Reformation.
Reformation
After the Reformation, which meant the end for Lund as the archbishopric and the center of the Danish Church, Lund was until 1638 the seat of a superintendent. First now ordinary bishop was Peder Winstrup. After the Peace of Roskilde in 1658, by the Danish provinces of Skåne, Halland and Bleck rings were Swedish, the Danish island of Bornholm is now solved from the diocese. This was incorporated as a diocese in the then Swedish state church.