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Diocese of Skálholt

{{Short description|Lutheran diocese in Iceland}}

{{For|the Roman Catholic titular see|Roman Catholic Diocese of Skálholt}}

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| name = Skálholt

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| local = Skálholtsbiskupa

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| established = 1056 (As Diocese of Skálholt)
1909 (As Suffragan Diocese of Skálholt)

| dissolved = 1801 (As Diocese of Skálholt)

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| suffragan = Kristján Valur Ingólfsson

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The Diocese of Skálholt ({{langx|is|Skálholtsbiskupa}} {{IPA|is|ˈskaulˌhɔl(t)sˌpɪskʏpa|}}) 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.{{Cite web |url=http://nat.is/travelguideeng/plofin_skalholt.htm |title=Skalholt South Iceland |access-date=24 February 2011 |archive-date=18 May 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110518004917/http://www.nat.is/travelguideeng/plofin_skalholt.htm |url-status=dead }}http://www.jeanscape.com/skalholt/ {{Dead link|date=March 2022}} In 1909, the diocese was restored as a suffragan see, with the Bishop of Skálholt being a suffragan bishop to the Bishop of Iceland.{{Cite web |url=http://www.skalholt.is/en/skalholtsstadur/ |title=Skálholt » What is Skálholt? |access-date=24 February 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110311022809/http://www.skalholt.is/en/skalholtsstadur/ |archive-date=11 March 2011 |url-status=dead }}

Roman Catholic

Lutheran

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,{{cite book |title=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=Hjalti |last=Hugason |edition=First |publisher=Church House Publishing |year=1993 |isbn=0715157507}} with the bishop's cathedra in the traditional Skálholt cathedral church. In 1990, new legislation increased the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Skálholt as an assistant bishop in the Reykjavik diocese.

See also

References

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;Additional sources

  • Sigurdson, Erika Ruth, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds, 2011), p. 242, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2610/ [https://archive.today/20130707093404/http://academia.edu/1795158/The_Church_in_Fourteenth-Century_Iceland] (pre-Reformation bishops).
  • Gunnar Kristjánsson et al., eds, Saga biskupsstólanna: Skálholt 950 ára 2006, Hólar 900 ára (Akureyri: Hólar, 2006), pp. 854–55.

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