Maria Jepsen
Encyclopedia
Maria Jepsen was the bishop
of Hamburg
in the North Elbian Evangelical Church
. She became the first Lutheran female bishop in the Evangelical Church in Germany
and worldwide on 4 April 1992, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.
She resigned on 16 July 2010 due to allegations that she did not act on information about an abuse case in the church in 1999.
Bishop
A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...
of Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
in the North Elbian Evangelical Church
North Elbian Evangelical Church
The North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Protestant church in Northern Germany, which largely covers the area of the states of Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg where it is the most important Protestant denomination...
. She became the first Lutheran female bishop in the Evangelical Church in Germany
Evangelical Church in Germany
The Evangelical Church in Germany is a federation of 22 Lutheran, Unified and Reformed Protestant regional church bodies in Germany. The EKD is not a church in a theological understanding because of the denominational differences. However, the member churches share full pulpit and altar...
and worldwide on 4 April 1992, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.
She resigned on 16 July 2010 due to allegations that she did not act on information about an abuse case in the church in 1999.
External links
- Official Biography of Maria Jepsen (German)