Maria Jepsen

Maria Jepsen

Maria Jepsen (born 19 January 1945, Bad Segeberg) was the bishop of Hamburg in the North Elbian Evangelical Church. She became the first Lutheran female bishop in the Evangelical Church in Germany and worldwide on 4 April 1992, and since then she has been re-elected for a second ten-year period.

She resigned on 16 July 2010 due to allegations that she did not act on information about an abuse case in the church in 1999.^[1]

References

1. ^ [1]

External links

• Official Biography of Maria Jepsen (German)

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Name	Jepsen, Maria
Alternative names
Short description	first female bishop
Date of birth	19 January 1945
Place of birth	Bad Segeberg
Date of death
Place of death