Bispegården, Copenhagen

Bispegården
Bispegården (to the left) seen from Frue Plads with the University in the foreground to the right
General information
Architectural style	Rococo
Town or city	Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Coordinates	55°40′46″N 12°34′18″E / 55.6794°N 12.5717°E / 55.6794; 12.5717Coordinates: 55°40′46″N 12°34′18″E / 55.6794°N 12.5717°E / 55.6794; 12.5717
Completed	1732
Client	Diocese of Zealand
Technical details
Structural system	Masonry (toward the street) Timber framing (toward the yard)
Design and construction
Architect	Lars Erichsen Martin Nyrop (alterations)

Bispegården (English: The Bishop's House) in Copenhagen, Denmark, is the residence and office of the Bishop of Copenhagen. It is located across the street from Copenhagen Cathedral and Frue Plads, on the corner of Nørregade and Studiestræde, in the city centre. Bispetorv, the small square next to it, is named after the building.

The Bishop's House stands on the site where Copenhagen's second city hall was built in about 1400. It was a four-winged building in Gothic style. In 1479, a new city hall was completed on nearby Gammeltorv and the old building was taken over by the University of Copenhagen which was founded the same year by King Christian I with the approval of Pope Sixtus IV.

At that time, the Roman-Catholic Bishop of Roskilde had his bishop's palace on Vor Frue Plads on the other side of the street, where it had been built after Bishop Henrik Gertsen gave up Absalon's Castle on Slotsholmen to King Valdemar IV in 1350.

After the Reformation, the new Lutheran Bishop of Zealand was given the university's building, while the university relocated to the dethroned Catholic bishop's palace. Still Roskilde Cathedral remained the seat of the new Lutheran diocese, as it had been for its Catholic predecessor.