Maria Jepsen (born 19 January 1945, in Bad Segeberg) was the 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.
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19 January 1945 (age 80) Bad Segeberg
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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