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Hans Tausen Hans Tausen (Tavsen) (1494 – 11 November 1561) was the leading Lutheran theologian of the Danish Reformation in Denmark. He served as Bishop of Ribe and published the first translation of the Pentateuch into Danish in 1535. Background Ha ...

(1494–1561), Bishop of the

Diocese of Ribe The Diocese of Ribe (Danish: ''Ribe Stift'') is a diocese within the Church of Denmark. Ribe Cathedral serves as the central cathedral within the diocese. Since 2014, the bishop has been Elof Westergaard. The former Roman Catholic Diocese of R ...

. Foss took his magister degree in divinity during 1564 in Copenhagen. He was employed as rector of the convent school at

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on Zealand . After 1570, he was parish priest at

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on the island of

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. He served as

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Bishop in Bergen stift from 1583 until he died in 1607.

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