The Church of Sweden is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden, the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world, after the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus and the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.
Olof Rudbeck the Younger or Olaus Rudbeckius d.y. was a Swedish explorer, scientist, botanist, ornithologist and rector of Uppsala University.
Olof Persson, sometimes Petersson, better known under the Latin form of his name, Olaus Petri, was a clergyman, writer, judge, and major contributor to the Protestant Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri, became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden.
The Archbishop of Uppsala has been the primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.
Erik Benzelius was a Swedish theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala.
Olaus Magnus was a Swedish writer, cartographer, and Catholic ecclesiastic.
Olaus Laurentii was a Swedish ecclesiastic and archbishop of Uppsala.
Tor Julius Efraim Andræ was a Swedish clergyman, professor and scholar of comparative religion who served as Bishop of the Diocese of Linköping.
Magnus Olai Beronius was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1764 to his death.
Johan Baazius the younger was a Swedish clergyman who served as Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden.
The Diocese of Skara is the oldest existing diocese in Sweden, originally a Latin bishopric of the Roman Catholic church, and since Protestant reformation a Lutheran diocese of the Church of Sweden, with its seat at Skara in Västergötland. In 2014, it celebrated its 1000-year anniversary as a full diocese.
Bishops of the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden.
Carl von Rosenstein was the Church of Sweden Bishop of Linköping from 1809 to 1819 and Archbishop of Uppsala from 1819 to 1836.
Olov is a Swedish form of Olav/Olaf, meaning "ancestor's descendant". A common short form of the name is Olle. The name may refer to:
Benzelius is the surname of a Swedish family of pastors and theologians, which originated in Bensbyn in the municipality of Luleå, from which the surname was formed in Latin.
Hans Olof Holmström was a Swedish bishop within the Church of Sweden. He was the archbishop of Uppsala between 1852 and 1855.
The Liturgical Struggle was the name for the period from 1574 until 1593 in Sweden, when there was a struggle about the confession of faith and liturgy of the Church of Sweden, brought about by the attempts of King John III of Sweden to make the Swedish church take a mediating position between Catholicism and Protestantism by holding only certain doctrines and practices which could be established immediately in either the Word of God or patristic writings, similar to what had once been imposed on the Lutheran areas in Germany during the Augsburg Interim. The struggle began in 1574, when the king introduced some new rules in the liturgy which were not in accordance with Lutheran doctrine and practice, followed by his publication of the Liturgia Svecanæ Ecclesiæ catholicæ & orthodoxæ conformia commonly called the "Red Book", which re-introduced a number of Catholic customs. The Liturgical Struggle ended with the Lutheran confession of faith at the Uppsala Synod in 1593.
Samuel Enander, later knows as Samuel Nicolai Gyllenadler, was a Swedish prelate who served as the Bishop of Linköping 1655–1670.
Johannes Elai Terserus was a Swedish prelate and theologian who served as the Bishop of Turku from 1658 till 1664 and then Bishop of Linköping between 1671 and 1678.
