The Diocese of Hólar is a suffragan diocese of the

Church of Iceland The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland ( is, Hin evangelíska lúterska kirkja), also called the National Church ( is, Þjóðkirkjan), is the officially established Christian church in Iceland. The church professes the Lutheran faith an ...

. The Bishop of Hólar is one of two suffragan bishops to the

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. The Diocese of Hólar existed between 1106 and 1801 when it was amalgamated into the Diocese of Iceland under the leadership of the

. In 1909 the diocese was revived as a titular see of the

. The following people were bishops of

Hólar Hólar (; also Hólar í Hjaltadal ) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern Iceland. Location Hólar is in the Hjaltadalur valley, some from the national capital of Reykjavík. It has a population of around 100. It is th ...

, Iceland:

Roman Catholic

Former bishopric

*1106–1121: St.

Jón Ögmundsson Jón Ögmundsson or Ogmundarson ( la, Ioannes Ögmundi filius; 1052–23 April 1121), also known as John of Holar and Jon Helgi Ogmundarson, was an Icelandic bishop and local Icelandic saint. In 1106, the second Icelandic diocese, Hólar, was cre ...

*1122–1145: Ketill Þorsteinsson *1147–1162: Björn Gilsson *1163–1201: Brandur Sæmundsson *1203–1237: Guðmundur góði Arason *1238–1247: Bótólfur *1247–1260: Heinrekur Kársson *1263–1264: Brandur Jónsson *1267–1313: Jörundur Þorsteinsson *1313–1322: Auðunn rauði Þorbergsson *1324–1331:

Lárentíus Kálfsson Lárentíus Kálfsson (medieval Icelandic Laurentius Kálfsson; 10 August 1267 – 16 April 1331) was bishop of the northern Icelandic diocese of Hólar 1324–31. Laurentius studied first with Þórarinn kaggi, his maternal uncle, in Vellir in ...

*1332–1341: Egill Eyjólfsson *1342–1356: Ormr Ásláksson *1358–1390: Jón skalli Eiríksson *1391–1411: Pétur Nikulásson *1411–1423: Jón Henriksson *1425–1435: Jón Vilhjálmsson *1435–1440: Jón Bloxwich *1441–1441: Róbert Wodbor *1442–1457: Gottskálk Keneksson *1458–1495: Ólafur Rögnvaldsson *1496–1520: Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson *1524–1550:

Jón Arason Jón Arason (1484 – November 7, 1550) was an Icelandic Roman Catholic bishop and poet, who was executed in his struggle against the imposition of the Protestant Reformation in Iceland. Background Jón Arason was born in Gryta, educated at Mu ...

Lutheran

*1552–1569: Ólafur Hjaltason *1571–1627: Guðbrandur Þorláksson *1628–1656: Þorlákur Skúlason *1657–1684: Gísli Þorláksson *1684–1690: Jón Vigfússon *1692–1696: Einar Þorsteinsson *1697–1710: Björn Þorleifsson *1711–1739: Steinn Jónsson *1741–1745:

Ludvig Harboe Ludvig Harboe (16 August 1709 – 15 June 1783) was a Danish theologian and bishop of the Diocese of Zealand from 1757 until his death. Harboe was born at Broager Peninsula in Sønderborg, Denmark. He was mostly educated in Germany. He att ...

*1746–1752: Halldór Brynjólfsson *1755–1779: Gísli Magnússon *1780–1781: Jón Teitsson *1784–1787: Árni Þórarinsson *1789–1798: Sigurður Stefánsson The Diocese was amalgamated in 1801 and now forms part of the Diocese of Reykjavik.

Suffragan bishopric

The see was discontinued from 1801 to 1909. It was revived in 1909 as a suffragan bishopric to the Bishop of Iceland, with the bishop's cathedra in the traditional Hólar cathedral church. In 1990 fresh legislation increased the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Hólar as an assistant bishop in the Reykjavik diocese. *1909–1927: Geir Sæmundsson *1928–1937: Hálfdán Guðjónsson *1937–1959: Friðrik J. Rafnar *1959–1969: Sigurður Stefánsson *1969–1981:

Pétur Sigurgeirsson Pétur Sigurgeirsson (2 June 1919 – 4 June 2010) was the Bishop of Iceland from 1981 until 1989. Biography Pétur was the son of Sigurgeir Sigurdsson who later became Bishop of Iceland and Gudrún Pétursdóttir. He had 3 other siblings and wa ...

*1982–1991: Sigurður Guðmundsson *1991–2002: Bolli Gústavsson *2003–2012: Jón Aðalsteinn Baldvinsson *2012–present: Solveig Lára Guðmundsdóttir

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

(pre-Reformation bishops). * Gunnar Kristjánsson et al., eds, Saga biskupsstólanna: Skálholt 950 ára 2006, Hólar 900 ára (Akureyri: Hólar, 2006), pp. 854–55.

References

External links

GigaCatholic with incumbent lists and linked biographies