Maria Jepsen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Maria Jepsen

first female bishop

Date of Birth: 19-Jan-1945

Place of Birth: Bad Segeberg, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany

Profession: pastor, theologian

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

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. 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.