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3 unusual facts about Church of Sweden


Birger, King of Sweden

Birger came of age when there was a conflict within the Church of Sweden over interpretation of the Privileges of 1280, which had been the cost of the support of the Church for his father's usurpation.

Essingen Islands

They remained a part of Bromma ecclesiastical parish until 1955, when they received their own parish within the Church of Sweden.

Justus Falckner

On February 23, 1704, King Carl XII of Sweden, issued an order formally confirming Andreas Rudman as Superintendent of the Swedish Lutheran Church in America.


Anglo-Lutheran Catholic Church

The ACC has accepted major modifications in sacramental theology and principles of church government from the Church of Sweden (Lutheran), the Oxford Movement of the Anglican Communion, and the documents and teachings of the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church which includes the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1994).

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.

Feast of the Transfiguration

In the Church of Sweden and the Church of Finland, however, the Feast is celebrated on the seventh Sunday after Trinity, the eighth Sunday after Pentecost.

Östanbäck Monastery

Östanbäck Monastery is a Lutheran Benedictine monastery for men in the Church of Sweden, located outside Sala in Sweden.

Trelleborg parish

Trelleborg parish is a parish belonging to the Diocese of Lund in the Church of Sweden and encompasses Trelleborg Municipality in Sweden.

Walter Obare

On 5 February 2005 he consecrated a Swedish pastor Arne Olsson as bishop for a conservative group called the Mission Province, which opposes the Church of Sweden policy of ordaining women into the ordained ministry based on supposed biblical teachings about gender.


see also

Missionsprovinsen

It contains the Catholic, Schartauan Confessional and Evangelical expressions found in the Church of Sweden on the doctrinal basis of the Book of Concord.

Nordic Catholic Church

In Sweden it was paralleled by the foundation of the Mission Province of the Church of Sweden.

Troilius

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