Frederick of Denmark (bishop)
Frederick of Denmark (* April 13, 1532, † October 27, 1556 ) was Bishop of Hildesheim ( 1551-1556 ) and Schleswig ( 1551-1556 ).
Life
He was the youngest son of King Frederick I of Denmark and Norway and his wife Sophia of Pomerania. He was brother of King Christian III. of Denmark, Duke Adolf, and Duke John II. The family was Protestant.
After the division of the state of Schleswig and Holstein in 1544 the division Dukes had to find a solution to provide younger brother befitting because they did not want further fragmenting the country. Negotiations with other dioceses failed. So the Archdiocese of Bremen was taken in vain in the eye, among other things for him. The Dukes forced the Protestant Episcopal Tilemann of slipcovers and the cathedral chapter of Schleswig to accept the barely legal Friedrich become as coadjutor. Even before the bishop had to give his spiritual rights to the respective rulers of the subregions. After the death of the Protestant Bishop of Tilemann Hussen Friedrich received the pin Schleswig as a benefice, without any spiritual law that the Dukes reserving for their areas. He secured the cathedral chapter of his rights and lived with this problem in a relationship.
On October 3, 1551 he has also been postulated as Bishop of Hildesheim, but not consecrated as a Protestant. At first he was able to regain some of the pledged property. So he unleashed the Office Steuerwald and the Office Peine. After his death they were pledged to his brother Duke Adolf of Holstein.
In the diocese of Hildesheim in 1553 it came to a comparison between the Protestant and the Catholic population. This has laid down the denominational structures in the pen for the future. Among other things he has in the city of Hildesheim seven churches Protestants überlassen.Durch Foreign troops the pin Hildesheim was heavily loaded.
After his death the pen of Duke Adolf of Schleswig was repossessed before this was confiscated by King Frederick II of Denmark in 1586.
He was buried in the cathedral of Schleswig. To remember him, a wall niche monument was created.