Jacob von der Lippe (27 September 1797 – 2 October 1878) was a Norwegian politician and priest who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand from 1841 to 1875.

[1] Jacob von der Lippe was born in Bergen, Norway on 27 September 1797 into a merchant family.

[2] After graduating with an Examen artium certificate in 1818, he went on to study theology at the Royal Frederick University in Christiania where he received a Cand.theol.

In 1831, von der Lippe was elected to be the stiftsprost in Kristiansand, one of the highest ranking priests in the Diocese of Christianssand.

An old story about von der Lippe says that a farmer had met with the bishop, and afterwards exclaimed "Det er den største diktator jeg har hørt!"