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Catholic diocese of Lund

Diocese of Lund
Lunds stift
Lund stift vapen.svg
Arms of the diocese of Lund. It shows a gridiron in rememberace of the martyrdom of Saint Lawrence, the patron saint of Lund Cathedral.
Location
Country Sweden
Deaneries 18 kontrakt
Coordinates 55°42′15″N 13°11′37″E / 55.70417°N 13.19361°E / 55.70417; 13.19361Coordinates: 55°42′15″N 13°11′37″E / 55.70417°N 13.19361°E / 55.70417; 13.19361
Statistics
Parishes 155
Congregations 189
Information
Denomination Church of Sweden
Established around 1050
Cathedral Lund Cathedral
Current leadership
Bishop Johan Tyrberg
Map
Map of Diocese of Lund.svg
Website
svenskakyrkan.se/lundsstift
Archdiocese of Lund
Archidioecesis Lundensis
Lund ærkebispedømme
Lund domkyrkan2007.jpg
Lund Cathedral, the seat of the Archbishop of Lund.
Location
Country Denmark (present day Sweden)
Ecclesiastical province Lund
Information
Denomination Roman Catholic
Sui iuris church Latin Church
Rite Roman Rite
Established 1048 (As Diocese of Lund)
1103 (As Archdiocese of Lund)
Dissolved 1536
Cathedral Lund Cathedral

The Diocese of Lund is a former Latin Catholic (arch)bishopric with see in Lund, southern Scandinavia. At the time of the Danish Reformation, it became a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Denmark, and since the signing of the treaty of Roskilde in 1658 it has been the southernmost diocese in the Lutheran Church of Sweden.

The territory of the present Lutheran diocese corresponds to the provinces of Blekinge and Skåne. There are 217 parishes within the diocese, the largest number in any of the dioceses of the Church of Sweden. The present bishop of Lund, Johan Tyrberg, succeeded Antje Jackelén in 2014.

The Latin Diocese of Lund was formed in 1060, in what was then Danish territory, by separation from the Diocese of Roskilde, then both suffragans of the German Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen. The provinces of (north-western) Skåne and Halland were under its jurisdiction.

The two other provinces of the Scanian lands, Blekinge and Bornholm, were, on the other hand, initially under the jurisdiction of the nearby Swedish Diocese of Dalby. At the earliest in 1067, the Dalby diocese was however merged into the Lund diocese.

In 1104, the diocese became the Metropolitan Archdiocese of Lund with its own ecclesiastical province, initially covering Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Norway got its own Archbishop of Nidaros in 1152, and Sweden its Archbishop of Uppsala in 1164, although the Swedish archbishop remained for a long time nominally subordinate to the Archbishop of Lund.


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