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Maria Jepsen (born 19 January 1945, in Bad Segeberg) is the former 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.
References
- Kaman, Mathias (16 July 2010). "Missbrauchsskandal: Hamburger Bischöfin Jepsen tritt zurück". Die Welt.
External links
- Official Biography of Maria Jepsen (German)
Maria Jepsen Born: 19 January 1945 in Bad Segeberg | ||
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Preceded byPeter Krusche | Bishop of the Hamburg Ambit within the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church 1992–2008 |
Succeeded byherself in an extended ambit |
Preceded byherself in a smaller ambit and Bärbel Wartenberg-Potteras Bishop of the Holstein-Lübeck Ambit |
Bishop of the Hamburg and Lübeck Ambit within the North Elbian Evangelical Lutheran Church 2008–2010 |
VacantTitle next held byKirsten Fehrs |
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