Andreas Laurentii Björnram

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Andreas Laurentii (with the nobility name Björnram ; * 1520 (according to older information); † January 1, 1591 ) was a Swedish Lutheran theologian and Archbishop of Uppsala from 1583 until his death in 1591 .

Life

Andreas Laurentii was a son of the Swedish general and councilor Lasse Olsson (also Lars Olofsson; † 1572). Through his mother Anna Grubb, he belonged to the extensive Bure family and was sometimes also known as Bothniensis Bureus . Little is known about Björnram's early years. The first reliable proof can be found when you matriculate at the University of Rostock in June 1556; however, he must have studied in Sweden beforehand.

Due to protection from King Eric XIV , Andreas Laurentii was appointed kyrkoherde (chief pastor) in Umeå in 1561 (apparently soon after his return from Rostock) . In 1570 he moved to Gävle in the same capacity , where he also served as provost for Gästrikland . Since he was from King John III. was thought to be a supporter of his plans to reshape the Lutheran Church in a humanist-reform Catholic sense, he appointed him superintendent in the diocese of Växjö in August 1576 . The king also ordered that he be ordained bishop in 1577. In his diocese, Andreas Laurentii made little effort to enforce the controversial royal agendas of 1576 ("Röda Boken"), but did not oppose it either. In 1583, after the failure of the king's negotiations with the Holy See, he was appointed to the office of Archbishop of Uppsala, which had been vacant since 1579, and was solemnly introduced on September 8th.

In this office, Andreas Laurentii now vigorously advocated the agendas, also against the resistance of the strictly Lutheran majority of the pastors. He changed some polemics with Abraham Angermannus , who was living in exile and who was later to succeed him. On the other hand, he stood up against the counter-Reformation currents, which persisted after the expulsion of the Jesuit Laurentius Nicolai Norvegus ("Klosterlasse") from Stockholm in 1580, and called on visitations to adhere to Luther's teaching. His contemporaries regarded him as an opportunist; Nils Ahnlund, however, characterized him as “more of a man of peace than of strife” (“Mera en fridens än en stridens man”) and blamed his rejection of the Gnesiolutherans for his mediating attitude. After his death, the king initially did not occupy the archbishop's chair again. Only after Johann's death was his old adversary Angermannus elected as the new archbishop at the Synod of Uppsala ( Uppsala möte ) in 1593 .

Like most of his predecessors and successors, Andreas Laurentii is buried in Uppsala Cathedral. His first marriage was to Anna Mikaelsdotter, the second to Margareta Phase, the widow of his predecessor Laurentius Petri Gothus and daughter of the first Lutheran Archbishop Laurentius Petri .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ See e.g. B. the article in Svenskt biografiskt handlexikon ; no year of birth is given in the Svenskt biografiskt lexikon .
  2. ↑ Entry in the Rostock matriculation portal
predecessor Office successor
Laurentius Petri Gothus Archbishop of Uppsala
1583 - 1591 		Abraham Angermannus
personal data
SURNAME Björnram, Andreas Laurentii
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Björnram, Andreas Laurentii; Andreas Laurentii Bothniensis Bureus
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Lutheran Archbishop
DATE OF BIRTH 1520
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1591