The former Diocese of Roskilde (Danish: Roskilde Stift) was a Latin Catholic diocese within the Catholic Church that was established in Denmark some time before 1022. The diocese was dissolved with the Reformation of Denmark and replaced by the Protestant Diocese of Zealand in 1537.
Today, the region once within the Diocese of Roskilde's jurisdiction is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen. Within the Church of Denmark, the region formerly within the ancient Diocese of Roskilde is today divided between the Diocese of Copenhagen, the "new" Diocese of Roskilde, and the Diocese of Helsingør.
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History
The episcopal see of the Bishop was Roskilde Cathedral but from 1167, when Bishop Absalon completed a new bishop's palace known as Absalon's Castle on the small island of Slotsholmen, he resided at the small town of Havn, which later became the present Danish capital Copenhagen.
The diocese originally included both the island of Zealand and Scania (southern Sweden, then part of Denmark), but Scania was disjoined in 1060 and initially divided into the short-lived Diocese of Dalby and the Diocese of Lund, which absorbed the first and became the Metropolitan of (southern) Scandinavia.
List of bishops of Roskilde
c. 1022–1029/30 Gerbrand (da)
c. 1030–late 1050s Avaco/Aage
c. 1060–1073/74 William of Roskilde
1074–1088 Svend Nordmand
1088–1124 Arnold
1124–1134 Peder
1134–1137 Eskild
1137–1138/39 Ricco/Rike
1139–1158 Asker/Asser
1158–1191 Absalon
1191–1214 Peder Sunesen
1214/15–1224/25 Peder Jacobsen
1225–1249 Niels Stigsen
1249–1254 Jakob Erlandsen
1254–1277 Peder Bang
1278–1280 Stig (uncertainty regarding name)
1280–1290 Ingvar (uncertainty regarding name)
1290–1300 Johannes/Johan/Jens Krag
1301–1320 Oluf
1321–1330 Johan/Jens Hind
1330–1344 Johan/Jens Nyborg
1344–1350 Jacob Poulsen
1350–1368 Henrik Gertsen
1368–1395 Niels Jepsen Ulfeldt / Niels Jacobsen Ulfeldt
1395–1416 Peder Jensen Lodehat
1416–1431 Jens Andersen Lodehat
1431–1448 Jens Pedersen Jernskæg
1449–1461 Oluf Daa
1461–1485 Oluf Mortensen Baden
1485–1500 Niels Skave
1500–1512 Johan Jepsen Ravensberg
1512–1529 Lage Jørgensen Urne
1529–1536 Joachim Rønnow