Diocese of Roskilde

The Diocese of Roskilde (Danish Roskilde pin ) is a Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Danish People's Church with its headquarters in Roskilde. As the central church of Roskilde Cathedral serves. The bishop is since May 2008 Peter Fischer- Møller.

For area of the diocese is one of the largest ( western) part of the island of Zealand and the south of it lying island Møn. It is divided into thirteen deaneries.

History

The Diocese of Roskilde was founded in 991 as a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hamburg -Bremen, from 1104 it belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Lund, which was by then also been suffragan of the Archbishopric of Hamburg- Bremen.

After the Reformation, the Lutheran Diocese Zealand was built in place of the Catholic diocese. The bishops of Zealand, who had also the function of a primus inter pares among the Danish bishops, indeed resided in Copenhagen, but had the Roskilde Cathedral as the main church.

The Roman Catholic Church led the Diocese of Roskilde to 1964 continued as titular Roskilde

1922, the diocese of Zealand in the smaller area, but more densely populated diocese Copenhagen, which (up to the cut-out portion of the Diocese of Helsingør 1961) included the entire Capital Region, and the new Diocese of Roskilde was divided.

Among the bishops ( including those before 1922 ) see List of bishops of Roskilde.