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unusual facts about Archbishop of Uppsala


Max Josef Metzger

When he tried to have this memorandum delivered to the Swedish Archbishop of Uppsala, Erling Eidem, Metzger was denounced by the courier.


Carl Fredrik Mennander

Carl Fredrik Mennander (sometimes modernised as Karl Fredrik Mennander, often just C.F. Mennander) (July 19, 1712, Stockholm – May 22, 1786) was Bishop of Turku, Finland, from 1757–1775 and then Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1775 to his death.

Finnish–Novgorodian wars

Pope Alexander III, in his letter to the Archbishop of Uppsala and Jarl Gottorm of Sweden in 1171 (or 1172), perhaps refers to the Finns' struggle against Novgorod by demanding Sweden take over Finnish fortressess in exchange for protection.


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Berig

The 16th-century Swedish archbishop of Uppsala, Johannes Magnus in his history of the Swedes and Goths, was the first to publish a song known as the "Ballad of Eric", about an early Gothic king called Eric, who bears some similarities to Berig.

Cathedral

Lyon had the archbishops of Sens and Paris and their provincial dioceses subject to it until the French Revolution, and Lund had the archbishop of Uppsala and his province subject to it.

Christina Odenberg

When the then bichop of the Diocese of Lund K. G. Hammar was made archbishop of Uppsala Odenberg was appointed as his successor on June 5, 1997.

Erik Benzelius

Erik Benzelius the Elder (1632–1709), bishop of Strängnäs, later archbishop of Uppsala

Erling Eidem

He was vicar of Gårdstånga parish 1924-1928 and professor of Biblical studies in Uppsala 1926-1928, and in Lund from 1928 until 1931, when he was elected archbishop of Uppsala.

Troilius

Samuel Troilius, Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1758 to 1764