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Bishop Anders Arborelius (2015)

Cardinal coat of arms by Anders Arborelius

Bishop's coat of arms by Anders Arborelius

Lars Anders Cardinal Arborelius OCD (born September 24, 1949 in Sorengo , Lugano district , Switzerland ) is a Swedish religious and Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm .

Life

Arborelius, descendant of the Swedish Arborelius family from Arboga , comes from a family of architects. Born during a family trip to Switzerland, he grew up in Lund in the south of Sweden . His parents got divorced. He studied Modern Languages (English and German) at Lund University . At the age of 20 he converted from the Swedish Lutheran to the Catholic creed. When he was 22 years old, he entered the Carmelite monastery of Norraby in Tågarp , not far from Landskrona, and was active as a monk here between 1971 and 1998. He studied philosophy in Bruges and theology at the Pontifical Faculty Teresianum in Rome . Bishop Hubertus Brandenburg donated him to the priesthood on September 8, 1979 in Malmö .

On November 17, 1998, Arborelius was appointed by Pope John Paul II to be the first Swedish bishop of the Catholic diocese of Stockholm. He received his episcopal ordination on December 29, 1998, from his predecessor Hubertus Brandenburg; Co- consecrators were William Kenney CP , Auxiliary Bishop in Birmingham , and Alfons Nossol , Bishop of Opole . From 2005 to 2015 Arborelius was chairman of the Nordic Bishops' Conference .

From 2007 to 2016 he was Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of Sweden of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem . Together with Cardinal Grand Master Edwin Frederick O'Brien, he was instrumental in the establishment of an independent Lieutenancy of the Order in Denmark with the investiture of Czeslaw Kozon , Bishop of Copenhagen, which in 2016 was merged into a Lieutenancy for Sweden and Denmark. In 2017 he was appointed Grand Cross Knight and Honorary Grand Prior of the Lieutenancy of Sweden and Denmark.

In the consistory of June 28, 2017, Pope Francis accepted him as a cardinal priest with the titular church Santa Maria degli Angeli e dei Martiri in the college of cardinals .

On December 23, 2017, the Pope appointed him a member of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity . On July 13, 2019, Pope Francis appointed him a member of the Congregation for the Clergy for five years .

Act

In his work as a bishop in a diocese with believers from around 80 nations and in his publications, Arborelius refers to the fund of Carmelite spirituality as well as to Wilfrid Stinissen , Edith Stein , Johannes von Kreuz and Marie-Antoinette de Geuser.

Arborelius said in an interview in the summer of 2009 that he had informed the Vatican in November 2008 about the Holocaust denials of a bishop of the Schismatic Society of St. Pius X , Richard Williamson , who had been excommunicated by the Catholic Church . The former cardinal Darío Castrillón Hoyos contradicted this representation. To avoid a scandal - Pope Benedict XVI. had lifted Williamson's excommunication in January 2009 and, after international protests, declared that he had no knowledge of his Holocaust denial - Arborelius initially prevented the publication of the interview, but then agreed to it in September 2009.

Award

In December 2017, Anders Arborelius was the first and only cardinal in Sweden to be named Sweden of the Year by the Swedish magazine Fokus . The reason given for the award was his treatment of migrants .

Publications (selection)

• Andean ABC. Att leva av det eviga orders. Libris, Stockholm 2011.
  • German edition: With holy impatience. Nothing is impossible for God's Spirit. Introduced and translated by Dominik Terstriep. St. Benno, Leipzig 2018, ISBN 978-3-7462-5144-8 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Anders Arborelius in the catalog of the German National Library
• Entry to Anders Arborelius on catholic-hierarchy.org ; Retrieved January 25, 2013.
• Information and picture (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Vår biskop - cardinal Arborelius. Stockholm's Katolska Stift, accessed September 22, 2019 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Anders Cardinal Arborelius: With holy impatience. Nothing is impossible for God's Spirit. Introduced and translated by Dominik Terstriep. St. Benno, Leipzig 2018, p. 8
3. ↑ Biskop Anders Arborelius OCD. Kaldeiska Katolska "Marnarsay" missions, accessed September 14, 2019 (Swedish, tabular biography). 
4. ↑ Rådet , Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, accessed on January 21, 2012
5. ↑ Newsletter spring 2017 , OESSH, accessed on May 24, 2017
6. ↑ Concistoro Ordinario Pubblico: Assegnazione dei Titoli o Diaconie. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, June 28, 2017, accessed June 28, 2017 (Italian). 
7. ^ Nomina di Membri dei Dicasteri della Curia Romana. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office, December 23, 2017, accessed December 23, 2017 (Italian). 
8. ^ Nomina di Membri della Congregazione per il Clero. In: Daily Bulletin. Holy See Press Office , July 13, 2019, accessed July 14, 2019 (Italian). 
9. ↑ Anders Cardinal Arborelius: With holy impatience. Nothing is impossible for God's Spirit. Introduced and translated by Dominik Terstriep. St. Benno, Leipzig 2018, p. 9f.
10. ↑ ^{a b} Peter Wensierski: The Vatican was previously known about Holocaust denial. Spiegel Online , September 23, 2009, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
11. ^ Ex-Cardinal Castrillon Hoyos attacks the Bishop of Stockholm. Der Standard , September 24, 2009, accessed September 14, 2019 . 
12. ↑ Cardinal Arborelius is "Swede of the Year". Catholic.de, December 15, 2017, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 
13. ↑ Dominik Terstriep: Introduction. In: Anders Arborelius: With holy impatience. Nothing is impossible for God's Spirit. St. Benno, Leipzig 2018, p. 10.
14. ↑ Religious Book of the Month July 2018. Diocese of Augsburg, July 2, 2018, accessed on September 14, 2019 . 

predecessor	Office	successor
Hubertus Brandenburg	Bishop of Stockholm since 1998	...
Lars Cavallin	Grand Prior of the Swedish Lieutenancy of the Order of the Knights of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem 2007–2016	Czeslaw Kozon