The Church of Sweden is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with 5.9 million members at year end 2018 it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden.
Lars Olof Jonathan Söderblom was a Swedish clergyman. He was the Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala between 1914 and 1931, and recipient of the 1930 Nobel Peace Prize. He is commemorated in the Calendar of Saints of the Lutheran Church and in the liturgical calendar of the Episcopal Church (USA) on July 12.
The Catholic Church in Sweden was established by Archbishop Ansgar in Birka in 829, and further developed by the Christianization of Sweden in the 9th century. King Olof Skötkonung is considered the first Christian king of Sweden.
Karl Gustav Hilding Hammar, commonly referred to as K. G. Hammar, is a Swedish clergyman. He was Archbishop of Uppsala, head of the Church of Sweden, from 1997 to 2006. During his tenure as archbishop he was a highly divisive figure, who gained strong support from some and drew heavy criticism from others, and he oversaw the separation of church and state in Sweden on 1 January 2000. He holds a PhD and is the author of several books on theology.
Anders Harald Wejryd is a Swedish Lutheran clergyman. Having been Bishop of Växjö since 1995, he was elected Archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Church of Sweden in March 2006 and took office in September of the same year. He left office in 2014, and was replaced with Antje Jackelén.
Bo Harald Giertz was a thrice-widowed Lutheran theologian, novelist and bishop of the Gothenburg Lutheran Diocese from 1949 to 1970. By the time he became bishop, he was already quite well known in Sweden and elsewhere both as an author and as a priest. He worked hard to promote western Swedish Pietism, an outlook that strongly resembled Neo-Lutheranism. Mostly it was a piety that took Scripture seriously, though not in a fundamentalist, literalist sense, and that centered Christian life on sacraments and prayer. Giertz's combination of pietist pastoral care with High Church Lutheran theology, which can also be noticed in his novels, gained for him a wide readership and made his novels as well as non-fiction books about Christian faith popular in Scandinavia. Giertz wrote more than 600 works but is known in the English-speaking world mostly for his book The Hammer of God.
Antje Jackelén is the Archbishop of Uppsala and primate of the Church of Sweden, the national church. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014, making her Sweden's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century, and the first female archbishop.
Max Josef Metzger was a Catholic priest and leading German pacifist who was executed by the Nazis during World War II.
Yttergran Church is a medieval Lutheran church in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden.
Åke Gabriel Bonnier is Bishop of Skara in the Church of Sweden since September 2012. Through inheritance, he is also the second largest owner of the Bonnier group.
Ulf Thomas Söderberg was Bishop of Västerås, Sweden, from 2008 to 2015.
Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund is a Finnish-born Swedish theologian. She was appointed Bishop of Härnösand in central Sweden on 8 November 2009; she was the fourth woman to be ordained as a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She retired on 13 December 2014.
Hans Bertil Stiglund is a Swedish bishop and author who has been Bishop of the Diocese of Luleå since 2002.
Johan Fredrik Dalman is a Swedish bishop.
Bengt Mikael Mogren, is a Swedish bishop, theologian and author.
Sven-Bernhard Fast is a Swedish prelate who served as Bishop of Visby from 2011 till 2018.
Susanne Rappmann, is a Swedish theologian and current Bishop of Gothenburg.
Algot Tergel, born August 8, 1906 in Kyrkhult congregation, Blekinge County, died October 12, 1996 i Sigtuna congregation, Stockholm County, was a swedish priest, teacher and author.
Ingmar Valter Lorens Ström was a Swedish author and Bishop of Stockholm from 1971 till 1979.
Bengt Andreas Holmberg is a Swedish prelate who is the current Bishop of Stockholm.
