Diocese of Växjö
Diocese of Växjö Diocesis Vexionensis Växjö stift | |
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| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 97[1] |
| Congregations | 224[1] |
| Information | |
| Denomination | Church of Sweden |
| Established | 12th century[1] |
| Cathedral | Växjö Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Fredrik Modéus[2] |
| Metropolitan Archbishop | Martin Modéus, Archbishop of Uppsala |
| Map | |
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| Website | |
| svenskakyrkan.se/vaxjostift | |
The Diocese of Växjö (
Roman Catholic bishopric, but was taken over by the Church of Sweden as a result of the Protestant Reformation in Sweden
.
The Lutheran Diocese of Växjö is situated in southern
Kronoberg in the south, and a small part of the county of Halland in the west. The diocese consists of 249 parishes, and has the highest church attendance in Sweden.[3]
History
Within the
prebendaries
, and a schoolmaster.
Little is known about the origin of the diocese. In 1126, King
crusade to Småland to Christianize its inhabitants.[4] The Diocese of Växjö may have been established by the Danish, or it may have separated from the Diocese of Linköping between 1164 and 1170. The diocese's second known bishop was Stenar, who was mentioned in two letters dating to 1183. In 1191 he quarreled with the Bishop of Linköping
concerning the borders of their respective dioceses. Stenar was succeeded in 1193 by John Ehrengisleson.
In the twelfth century, the construction of
St. John the Baptist
and St. Sigfrid at Växjö. In 1205 the biography of Saint Sigfrid was written.
Bishop Gregory (about 1241), or his successor, renewed the boundary dispute with the Bishop of Linköping, which was settled by the pope in 1248 or 1249. Bishop Bo (1287–91) appealed in a dispute to the
Gustav I Vasa
's reign, when the Catholic hierarchy was replaced by the Lutheran state religion.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). "Ancient See of Vexiö". Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ a b c d "Växjö stift". Nationalencyklopedin (in Swedish). Retrieved 26 August 2011. (subscription required)
- ^ "Biskop" (in Swedish). Church of Sweden. Archived from the original on 9 November 2014. Retrieved 26 August 2011.
- ^ The Making of Regions of Germany and Sweden Archived 30 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ a b s:Catholic Encyclopedia (1913)/Ancient See of Vexiö
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