The Reformation in Sweden is generally regarded as having begun in 1527 during the reign of King Gustav I of Sweden, but the process was slow and was...

Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, was a major theological movement or period or series of events in...

sphere. The Reformation in Sweden began in 1527 when King Gustav Vasa and his Riksdag of Västerås broke the full communion of the Swedish church with...

the Swedish Reformation. In common with other Evangelical Lutheran churches (particularly in the Nordic and Baltic states), the Church of Sweden maintains...

extended over today's Gotland (now part of Sweden) and Øsel in Estonia. The Reformation reached Holstein and Denmark in the 1520s. Lutheran figures like Hans...

the wider Protestant Reformation, in 1560 Swedish Reformation, the Protestant reformation in Sweden, in 1527 Radical Reformation, an Anabaptist movement...

and a prominent proponent of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden, including Finland, which was a Swedish territory at the time. He is often called the...

pope to introduce Counter-Reformation in Sweden. She was the mother of Sigismund III Vasa. Catherine Jagiellon was born in Kraków as the youngest daughter...

were bankrupt and lost power in the Nordic countries, where the Lutheran Church of Sweden by the Reformation in Sweden obtained an ecclesiastical monopoly...

of the Reformation. The final step was taken in 1531, when Gustav Vasa announced Laurentius Petri as the new archbishop of Uppsala and Sweden. Laurentius...

Counter-Reformation (Latin: Contrareformatio), also sometimes called the Catholic Revival, was the period of Catholic resurgence that was initiated in response...

Sweden (Swedish: Sveriges grundlagar) are the four constitutional laws of the Kingdom of Sweden that regulate the Swedish political system, acting in...

of the Kingdom of Sweden in 1531 during the Lutheran Reformation. Was one of the strongest supporters of King John III of Sweden's liturgy. Eventually...

The Scottish Reformation was the process whereby Scotland broke away from the Catholic Church, and established the Protestant Church of Scotland. It forms...

What made the Church of Sweden an evangelical-catholic church was to Archbishop Söderblom the fact that the Reformation in Sweden was a 'church improvement'...

nothing more than a revision of the Swedish Reformation Bible. Benzelius was a typical representative of 17th-century Swedish Lutheran orthodoxy, was careful...

Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and...

status of Women in the Protestant Reformation was deeply influenced by Bible study, as the Reformation promoted literacy and Bible study in order to study...

Reformation Day is a Protestant Christian religious holiday celebrated on 31 October in remembrance of the onset of the Reformation. According to Philip...

success of the reformation in Sweden, his attachment to the Catholic church led him to stay abroad for good where he accompanied his brother in Poland. They...

a Swedish scholar and professor who became Archbishop of Uppsala, a position he held between 1805 and 1819. Axelsson Lindblom was born at Skeda in Östergötland...

born Håkan Spegel in Ronneby in Blekinge (today in Sweden), was a religious author and hymn writer who held several bishop's seats. In 1675, the King Charles...

Uppsala, Sweden, in two sessions, during the turbulent Reformation events. He was the son of Eric Arvidsson Trolle, a former regent of Sweden during the...

The Kalmar Union was a personal union in Scandinavia, agreed at Kalmar in Sweden as designed by Queen Margaret of Denmark. From 1397 to 1523, it joined...

Reformation in Sweden. His brother, Laurentius Petri (Lars Persson), became the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. Born in Örebro, in south-central...

Uppsala in the Church of Sweden from 1764 to his death. Magnus Beronius was the son of Olaus Magni Beronis and Catharina Celsia and was born in Uppsala...

The English Reformation took place in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the Pope and bishops over...

Chronicle), Laurentius Petri (1531–73; main character behind the Swedish Lutheran reformation), Abraham Angermannus (1593–99; controversial critic of the King)...

the second Swedish Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden. He served from 1575 to 1579. He was born Lars Petersson in either 1529 or 1530 in the province...

of God". The Reformation in Sweden began with Olaus and Laurentius Petri, brothers who took the Reformation to Sweden after studying in Germany. They...