Maria Jepsen
Maria Jepsen
Maria Jepsen (born 19 January 1945 in Bad Segeberg) was the bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church. On 4 April 1992 the synod of the Hamburg Ambit elected her bishop, the first Lutheran woman to be a bishop worldwide, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.
On 16 July 2010 she resigned due to allegations that she did not act on information about an abuse case in her ambit of the church in 1999.[1]
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- Official Biography of Maria Jepsen (German)
| Maria Jepsen Born: 19 January 1945 in Bad Segeberg | ||
| Titles in Lutheranism | ||
|---|---|---|
| Preceded by Peter Krusche |
Bishop of the Hamburg Ambit within the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church 1992–2008 |
Succeeded by herself in an extended ambit |
| Preceded by herself in a smaller ambit and Bärbel Wartenberg-Potter as Bishop of the Holstein-Lübeck Ambit |
Bishop of the Hamburg and Lübeck Ambit within the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church 2008–2010 |
Vacant Title next held by Kirsten Fehrs |
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