List of Hólar bishops
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Roman Catholic

  • 1106 – 1121: Jón Ögmundsson
    Jón Ögmundsson
    Jón Ögmundsson , also known as John of Holar and Jon Helgi Ogmundarson, was an Icelandic bishop and local Icelandic saint. In 1106 he founded the episcopal see at Hólar in the north of Iceland and served as bishop there until his death.A religious purist, Jón made it his mission to uproot all...

  • 1122 – 1145: Ketill Þorsteinsson
  • 1147 – 1162: Björn Gilsson
  • 1163 – 1201: Brandur Sæmundsson
  • 1203 – 1237: Guðmundur góði Arason
  • 1238 – 1247: Bótólfur
  • 1247 – 1260: Heinrekur Kársson
  • 1263 – 1264: Brandur Jónsson
  • 1267 – 1313: Jörundur Þorsteinsson
  • 1313 – 1322: Auðunn rauði
  • 1324 – 1331: Lárentíus Kálfsson
    Lárentíus Kálfsson
    Lárentíus Kálfsson , 10 August 1267–16 April 1331) was bishop of the northern Icelandic diocese of Hólar 1324–31....

  • 1332 – 1341: Egill Eyjólfsson
  • 1342 – 1356: Ormur Ásláksson
  • 1358 – 1390: Jón skalli Eiríksson
  • 1391 – 1411: Pétur Nikulásson
  • 1411 – 1423: Jón Henriksson
  • 1425 – 1435: Jón Vilhjálmsson
  • 1435 – 1440: Jón Bloxwich
  • 1441 – 1441: Róbert Wodbor
  • 1442 – 1457: Gottskálk Keneksson
  • 1458 – 1495: Ólafur Rögnvaldsson
  • 1496 – 1520: Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson
  • 1524 – 1550: Jón Arason
    Jón Arason
    Jón Arason was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reform in Iceland.-Background:...


Lutheran

  • 1552 – 1569: Ólafur Hjaltason
  • 1571 – 1627: Guðbrandur Þorláksson
    Guðbrandur Þorláksson
    Guðbrandur Þorláksson was an Icelandic mathematician, cartographer and clergyman.He studied at the cathedral school in Hólar and then at the University of Copenhagen. He and was successively rector of the school at Skálholt and minister at historic Breiðabólstaður in Vesturhóp...

  • 1628 – 1656: Þorlákur Skúlason
  • 1657 – 1684: Gísli Þorláksson
  • 1684 – 1690: Jón Vigfússon
  • 1692 – 1696: Einar Þorsteinsson
  • 1697 – 1710: Björn Þorleifsson
  • 1711 – 1739: Steinn Jónsson
  • 1741 – 1745: Ludvig Harboe
    Ludvig Harboe
    Ludvig Harboe was a Danish/Norwegian theologian and bishop.Harboe was mostly educated in Germany. He was sent to Iceland in 1741 to inspect the state of the church there on behalf of the Danish church. He initiated some reforms there and while there was appointed to the post of Bishop of the...

  • 1746 – 1752: Halldór Brynjólfsson
  • 1755 – 1779: Gísli Magnússon
  • 1780 – 1781: Jón Teitsson
  • 1784 – 1787: Árni Þórarinsson
    Árni Þórarinsson
    Árni Þórarinsson is an Icelandic writer born in Reykjavík on 1 August 1950. He received his B.A. in 1973 from the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England....

  • 1789 – 1798: Sigurður Stefánsson


The Diocese was amalgamated in 1801 and now forms part of the Diocese of Reykjavik.
There is still a current Bishop of Hólar, as it is now a Suffragan See (Anglican/Lutheran sense) in the Reykjavik diocese.
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