Swedish Church Ordinance 1571
The Swedish Church Ordinance of 1571 was the first complete
The main originator of the ordinance was archbishop
Through the ordinance, all the fundamental
The Swedish Church Ordinance of 1571 also proclaimed the need of a schooling system. To benefit trade, craftsmanship and commerce in the cities, the city inhabitants were to have schools for every city child, both boys and girls, to learn how to read, write and count as well as how to manage some kind of basic commercial skill.[4] Girls as well as boys were to be included; no schools for girls were founded, but it became common for girls to be included in the city schools' first classes. The countryside had to wait for a school system to be established until the Swedish Church Law 1686.
Aftermath
As useful as the ordinance was, it did not address the essential matter of a
This ordinance was also altered by King John III of Sweden, who made several Catholic-inclined additions to it: the Nova Ordinantia of 1575, and his own church doctrine, the Röda boken ('Red Book') of 1576, two additions which introduced a middle stance between Catholicism and Protestantism, and reintroduced many Catholic customs. These were not reversed until the Uppsala Synod of 1593.
The Swedish Church Ordinance 1571 was succeeded by the Swedish Church Law 1686.
References
- ^ a b Cornelius, p.76
- Nordisk Familjebok
- ^ Quod superest ex consecratis Elementis, conservetur oportuno loco, donec eis opus fuerit in Ecclesia. -Church ordinance pp. 95-94. Martti Parvio: Canon Ecclesiasticus, p. 94 Helsinki 1966
- ^ Du Rietz, Anita, Kvinnors entreprenörskap: under 400 år, 1. uppl., Dialogos, Stockholm, 2013
- ^ Cornelius, p. 77
- (in Swedish) Article Kanonisk rätt, in Nordisk familjebok (1911)
- (in Swedish) Article Kyrkoording, in Nordisk familjebok (1911)
- (in Swedish) Cornelius: Svenska kyrkans historia efter reformationen / Förra delen (1520-1693). (1886–1887)
Source text
- Den svenska kyrkoordningen 1571 jämte studier kring tillkomst, innehåll och användning published by Sven Kjöllerström, Lund 1971.