Diocese of Skálholt

Diocese of Skálholt
Skálholtsbiskupa
Location
Country Iceland
Information
Denomination Church of Iceland
Established 1056 (As Diocese of Skálholt)
1909 (As Suffragan Diocese of Skálholt)
Dissolved 1801 (As Diocese of Skálholt)
Cathedral Skálholt Cathedral
Suffragan Kristján Valur Ingólfsson

The Diocese of Skálholt is a suffragan diocese of the Church of Iceland. It was the estate of the first bishop in Iceland, Isleifr Gizurarson, who became bishop in 1056. (Christianity had been formally adopted in 1000). His son, Gizurr, donated it to become the official see. The Diocese was amalgamated in 1801, and now forms part of the Diocese of Iceland under the leadership of the Bishop of Iceland.[1][2] In 1909 the diocese was restored as a suffragan see, with the Bishop of Skálholt, being a suffragan bishop to the Bishop of Iceland.[3]

Roman Catholic

Residential Catholic bishops

Catholic titular see

In 1968, the former Catholic bishopric was nominally revived as a titular see.

  • titular Archbishop Jan Baptist Hubert Theunissen, Montfort Missionaries (S.M.M.) (1968.12.19 – 1979.04.09; former Metropolitan Archbishop of Blantyre)
  • titular Bishop Alphonsus Maria H.A. Castermans (1982.01.15 – 2008.04.21)
  • titular Bishop Paul Mason (2016.04.23) Auxiliary Bishop of Southwark (UK)[4]

Lutheran

  • 1540–1548 → Gissur Einarsson
  • 1549–1557 → Marteinn Einarsson
  • 1558–1587 → Gísli Jónsson
  • 1589–1630 → Oddur Einarsson
  • 1632–1638 → Gísli Oddsson
  • 1639–1674 → Brynjólfur Sveinsson
  • 1674–1697 → Þórður Þorláksson
  • 1698–1720 → Jón Vídalín
  • 1722–1743 → Jón Árnason
  • 1744–1745 → Ludvig Harboe (danskur)
  • 1747–1753 → Ólafur Gíslason
  • 1754–1785 → Finnur Jónsson
  • 1777–1796 → Hannes Finnsson
  • 1797–1801 → Geir Vídalín[5]

The Diocese was amalgamated in 1801 and now forms part of the Diocese of Iceland.

Suffragan bishopric

The see was discontinued from 1801 to 1909. It was revived in 1909 as a suffragan bishopric to the Bishop of Iceland,[6] with the bishop's cathedra in the traditional Skálholt cathedral church. In 1990 fresh legislation increased the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Skálholt as an assistant bishop in the Reykjavik diocese.[6]

  • 1909 – 1930: Valdimar Briem
  • 1931 – 1936: Sigurður P. Sívertsen
  • 1937 – 1965: Bjarni Jónsson
  • 1966 – 1983: Sigurður Pálsson
  • 1983 – 1989: Ólafur Skúlason
  • 1989 – 1994: Jónas Gíslason
  • 1994 – 2010: Sigurður Sigurðarson
  • 2011 – : Kristján Valur Ingólfsson

See also

Further reading

References

  1. ↑ http://nat.is/travelguideeng/plofin_skalholt.htm
  2. ↑ http://www.jeanscape.com/skalholt/
  3. ↑ http://www.skalholt.is/en/skalholtsstadur/
  4. ↑ http://jerichotree.com/2016/04/23/pope-francis-appoints-fr-paul-mason-as-new-auxiliary-bishop-to-southwark-diocese/
  5. ↑ http://skalholt.is/frodleikur/biskupar/
  6. 1 2 Hugason, Hjalti (1993). Together in Mission and Ministry: The Porvoo Common Statement, With, Essays on Church and Ministry in Northern Europe (Section: Episcopacy in our churches - Iceland) (First ed.). Church House Publishing. ISBN 0715157507.
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