Diocese of Strängnäs

Coordinates: 59°22′32″N 17°02′04″E / 59.37556°N 17.03444°E / 59.37556; 17.03444
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Diocese of Strängnäs

Diocesis Stregnensis

Strängnäs stift
Coordinates
59°22′32″N 17°02′04″E / 59.37556°N 17.03444°E / 59.37556; 17.03444
Statistics
Parishes62[1]
Congregations73[1]
Information
DenominationChurch of Sweden
Establishedaround 1100[2]
CathedralSträngnäs Cathedral
Current leadership
BishopJohan Dalman[3]
Map
Website
svenskakyrkan.se/strangnasstift

The Diocese of Strängnäs (

Lake Mälaren. The diocese is made up of the two provinces Närke and Södermanland (except for eastern Södermanland, which belongs to Stockholm County and the Diocese of Stockholm
).

The diocese was first a Latin Catholic

archdiocese and became the Metropolitan see of all of Scandinavia. From 1164 on Strängnäs was suffragan to the Swedish archbishop of Uppsala. It was established during the 12th century by the English missionary Saint Eskil
.

Catholic Diocese

Missionary Antecedents

In 829

Unni
visited Björkö and died there. In 1066 the city was utterly destroyed.

Pre-Reformation bishops

Late legend has it that Saint Eskil, an English bishop, disturbed a heathen sacrifice held at Strängnäs by king

Cluniac
monastery of Strängnäs.

He was succeeded by Bishop William (1160–1208). In 1160 the

Saint Eric
, was transferred to Upsala.

The see lay vacant for nine years, but in 1233 Bishop Trogil was elected. About this time the

Franciscan priory at Nykoping were founded. About 1250 Frogil was succeeded by Kol, who resigned in 1257 and was succeeded by Bishop Finved (1257–75). About 1268 the Dominican priory at Strängnäs was founded. In 1291 Bishop Annund (1275–91) consecrated the cathedral, which was burnt down on the same day, and rebuilt by Isarus, the next bishop (1291–1303). In 1305 it was decided that the city of Stockholm belonged to Uppsala, but Södermalm
belonged to Strängnäs.

The poet

Svartsjo about 1493 and a hospital for aged and infirm priests at Strängnäs in 1496. In 1495 he had the Breviary
of Strengnäs printed at Stockholm in a revised edition.

His successor, Matthias Gregerson Lilje, was the protector of "the Swedish Luther",

canon of Strengnäs. There he taught Lutheranism
, a form of belief with which Bishop Gregerson was entirely unacquainted. The bishop was beheaded on 8 November 1520 during the massacre at Stockholm.

Cathedral and institutions

The cathedral of Strängnäs with its numerous chapels, one of which now contains a fine museum of ecclesiastical art, the bishop's palace, built about 1490, now the cathedral school, the fine Church of St. Nicholas at the interesting old town of Örebro, and numerous ancient village churches bear witness to the piety of the inhabitants in Catholic times.

Three provincial synods were held at Telge in the Diocese of Strängnäs in 1279, 1341 and 1380. The first two issued statutes on matters concerning the discipline of the clergy, while the synod of 1380 threatened with various penalties those who molested the tenants of church lands.

The "

Sodermanland
, contains a number of ecclesiastical laws.

Among other institutions, there was in the diocese the

Carmelites
in 1418.

Lutheran Reformation

King

Gustavus Vasa
(1523) he promoted the interests of Protestantism.

The last Catholic bishop of Strängnäs, if he can be called so, was

Messenius states that the bishops elect signed a document in which they promised to go to Rome to seek papal confirmation, and thus persuaded Petrus Magni to proceed to the consecration. Magnus Sommar was very submissive towards the king, but his concessions did not save him. He was deposed and imprisoned, and released in order that he might retire to the monastery of Krokek
.

See also

References

  1. ^ a b c "Det här är Strängnäs stift" (in Swedish). Church of Sweden. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
  2. ^ "Strängnäs stift". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 August 2011. (subscription required)
  3. ^ "Biskopen i Strängnäs stift" (in Swedish). Church of Sweden. Archived from the original on 8 October 2012. Retrieved 26 August 2011.

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