List of Hólar bishops
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The following people were bishops of Hólar, Iceland:
Contents
Roman Catholic
Former bishopric
- 1106–1121: St. Jón Ögmundsson
- 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
- 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
Titular see
(list missing)
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
- 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. There is still a current Bishop of Hólar, as it is now a Suffragan See (Anglican/Lutheran sense) in the Reykjavik diocese.
Sources
- Sigurdson, Erika Ruth, 'The Church in Fourteenth-Century Iceland: Ecclesiastical Administration, Literacy, and the Formation of an Elite Clerical Identity' (unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of Leeds, 2011), p. 242, http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2610/ http://academia.edu/1795158/The_Church_in_Fourteenth-Century_Iceland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.
