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  1. It is an open national church which, working with a democratic organisation and through the ministry of the church, covers the whole nation. The Primate of the Church of Sweden, as well as the Metropolitan of all Sweden, is the Archbishop of Uppsala .

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      Bridget of Sweden, OSsS (c. 1303 – 23 July 1373) born as...

  2. The Church of Sweden ( Swedish: Svenska kyrkan ), is a Lutheran - Protestant Christian denomination in Sweden. The denomination was established in the 16th century, when Sweden converted from Catholicism to Protestantism, and became the Swedish state church.

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  4. Home. Member churches. Church of Sweden. Europe. (Svenska kyrkan) Christianity in Sweden traces its beginnings to the missionary endeavours of St Ansgar (801-865), the first archbishop of Hamburg and the "Apostle of Scandinavia". Pagan traditions were finally overcome in the 11th century by German and English missionaries.

  5. The Diocese of Stockholm (Swedish: Stockholms stift) is a division of the Church of Sweden. Its cathedral is Storkyrkan in Stockholm's Old Town. The diocese covers most of metropolitan Stockholm and was formed in 1942 from parts of the medieval dioceses of Strängnäs and Uppsala, both of which pre-dated the foundation of the city.

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