The Diocese of Gothenburg ( sv, Göteborgs stift) is a

diocese In church governance, a diocese or bishopric is the ecclesiastical district under the jurisdiction of a bishop. History In the later organization of the Roman Empire, the increasingly subdivided provinces were administratively associa ...

of the

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...

. Since March 2018, the bishop has been Susanne Rappmann. The diocese includes the

province A province is almost always an administrative division within a country or state. The term derives from the ancient Roman '' provincia'', which was the major territorial and administrative unit of the Roman Empire's territorial possessions ou ...

s of Bohuslän,

Halland Halland () is one of the traditional provinces of Sweden (''landskap''), on the western coast of Götaland, southern Sweden. It borders Västergötland, Småland, Scania and the sea of Kattegat. Until 1645 and the Second Treaty of Brömseb ...

, and south-west parts of

Västergötland Västergötland (), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden. Väs ...

. The episcopal see of the diocese is in Gothenburg Cathedral.

List of superintendents of Gothenburg

* Sylvester Johannis Phrygius (1620-1628) * Andreas Johannis Prytz (1629–1647) * Ericus Brunnius (1647–1664)

List of bishops of Gothenburg

* Zacharias Klingius (1665–1671) * Laurentius Thoreri Billichius (1671–1678) * Daniel Larsson Wallerius (1678–1689) * Johan Carlberg (1689–1701) * Georg Wallin the elder (1701–1702) * Laurentius Norrmannus (1702–1703) * Olaus Nezelius (1703–1710) * Johan Poppelman (1711–1725) *

Erik Benzelius the younger Erik Benzelius the younger (27 January 1675 in Uppsala – 23 September 1743) was a priest, theologian, librarian, bishop of Linköping, 1731–1742 and Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden, 1742–1743. He was a highly learned man and one of Sweden' ...

(1726–1731) * Jacob Benzelius (1731–1744) * Georg Wallin the younger (1745–1760) * Erik Lamberg (1760–1780) * Johan Wingård (1781–1819) *

Carl Fredrik af Wingård Carl Fredrik af Wingård (born 26 September 1781 in Stockholm, died 19 September 1851) was a Swedish Lutheran archbishop of the Church of Sweden, Professor at Uppsala University, and politician. He served as Archbishop of Uppsala 1839–1851 ...

(1818–1839) * Anders Bruhn (1840–1856) * Gustaf Daniel Björck (1856–1888) * Edvard Herman Rodhe (1888–1929) * Carl Block (1929–1948) * Bo Giertz (1949–1970) *

Bertil Gärtner Bertil Edgar Gärtner (13 December 1924 – 20 September 2009) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991) and professor of New Testament exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, United States. In 1969 Gärtner became provost ...

(1970–1991) * Lars Eckerdal (1991–2003) * Carl Axel Aurelius (2003–2011) * Per Eckerdal (2011–2018) * Susanne Rappmann (2018–present)

References

External links

* Gothenburg Gothenburg Västra Götaland County Halland County 1620 establishments in Sweden 1620 in Christianity Religious organizations established in 1620 {{Sweden-geo-stub