List of Bishops, Prince-Bishops and Administrators of Lübeck

Adaldag, the archbishop of Hamburg and Bremen, founded by Emperor Otto I, probably in the year 972 the bishopric of Oldenburg. For the first bishop he appointed a clergyman named Eghvard. The news of an alleged first bishop named Marco or Merka are very uncertain.

In 1160, under Bishop Gerold of the bishopric of Oldenburg is moved to Lübeck.

While the diocese went down as a spiritual unity in the Reformation (1648 resolved) remained the possession of chapter and bishop, the diocese, as a territory. The cathedral chapter (now Protestant ) still chose the Prince-Bishop, which since 1586 always came from the house of Holstein -Gottorp. After the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Lübeck was the only Protestant Bishopric in the German Reich. Only with the secularization of the Empire in 1803, the pen area as the Principality of Lübeck became part of the (Great ) Duchy of Oldenburg.

Sources and notes

  • Friedrich Wilhelm Ebeling: The German bishops until the end of the sixteenth century -, literary, historical and church statistically shown Biographical. Volume 1, Leipzig 1858, pp. 562-589.
  • Ernst Friedrich Mooyer: lists of German bishops since the year 800 AD Born in Minden 1854, pp. 56-57.
  • Hermann Grote: pedigrees, Leipzig 1877
  • To the Bishops of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Lübeck (1933-1978)
  • Among the bishops / the bishop for the diocese Holstein Lübeck the North Elbe Evangelical Lutheran Church (1978-2008) see: Nordelbische Evangelical Lutheran Church
Siebmachers Wappenbuch Archbishopric of Bremen Bosau Albert Suerbeer Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor Bernt Notke Protestant Reformation John Adolf, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp John Frederick of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince-Bishop Christian Albert, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp Christian August of Holstein-Gottorp, Prince of Eutin Adolf Frederick, King of Sweden Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church
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