Peder Winstrup

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The Right Reverend Peder Winstrup
Bishop of Lund
Bishop Peder Winstrup on a contemporary engraving printed in one of his own theological works in 1666
Church	Church of Denmark and Church of Sweden
Diocese	Lund
Appointed	1638
Installed	1638
Term ended	28 December 1679
Predecessor	Mads Jensen Medelfar
Successor	Canutus Hahn
Personal details
Born	Peder Pedersen Winstrup (1605-04-30)April 30, 1605 Copenhagen, Denmark–Norway
Died	December 28, 1679(1679-12-28) (aged 74)
Buried	Lund Cathedral
Parents	Peder Jensen Vinstrup

Peder Pedersen Winstrup (30 April 1605 – 28 December 1679) was Bishop of Lund in Scania. Winstrup was bishop there during a period spanning both Danish and Swedish sovereignty and periods of war when the land was contested. He was married to the Danish noblewoman, Dorothea von Andersen who was an influential person in her own right in Scania and known to be strongly pro-Danish.^[1]