Thomas Kingo
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Thomas Hansen Kingo was a Danish bishop, poet and hymnwriter born in Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry.
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Kingo's hymnal, 1859 edition
Thomas Quellinus' epitaph to Christoffer Balslev, Thomas Kingo and BIrgitte Balslev, 1702, as well as Thomas Kingo's and Birgitte Balslev's sarcophaguses.
The metal screen from Kingo's burial chapel
Diocese of Funen
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The Diocese of Funen is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. St. Canute's Cathedral in Odense serves as the seat of its bishop. Tine Lindhardt has been the bishop of the dioces
Thomas Kingo
…Drøsselbjerg, and in 1668 he was ordained a minister in his hometown of Slangerup, where his poem-writing began. In 1677 Kingo was appointed bishop of the Diocese of Funen. At first he essayed patriotic poems, but later devoted himself almost entirely to writing hymns, and in 1674 the first part of his Aandelige Siunge-Koor…
The Cathedral of the diocese.