Antje Jackelén

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Antje Jackelén , b. Zöllner (born June 4, 1955 in Herdecke , Germany ) has been Archbishop of the Church of Sweden since June 2014 . She was previously the Lutheran Bishop of Lund in Sweden from 2007 to 2014 .

biography

After graduating from high school in 1973 at the municipal high school in Wetter (Ruhr) , Antje Jackelén studied theology , first from 1974 to 1977 at the Bielefeld-Bethel Church University and at the University of Tübingen , then until 1979 at the University of Uppsala . Jackelén was ordained as a pastor in the Church of Sweden in 1980 and received her doctorate in theology from Lund University in 1999 . Her dissertation dealt with the topic of time and eternity: the question of time in church, science and theology.

Jackelén worked from 1981 to 1988 as pastor in the parish Tyresö in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Stockholm . She then worked from 1988 to 1994 in the parish of Gårdstånga in the diocese of Lund and then in the cathedral parish in the diocese of Lund from 1995 to 1996.

After receiving her doctorate, she worked at Lund University from 1999 to 2001 and was employed as Professor of Systematic Theologian, Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago from 2001 to 2003 . From 2003 she was professor and director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science . In 2007 she was elected Bishop of Lund and succeeded Christina Odenberg in this office. After Odenberg and Caroline Krook , Jackelén became the third bishop in the Church of Sweden. The election of Antje Jackelén was a first for the Church of Sweden in two ways. On the one hand, because she was the first female bishop to be elected by the Church itself (before that, the Swedish state had called the bishops). In addition, her election as bishop was also the first bishop's election that was decided in the first ballot. On April 15, 2007 Jackelén was consecrated in Uppsala Cathedral.

She was elected Archbishop of the Church of Sweden on October 15, 2013 and took office on June 15, 2014. She is the first woman to head the Church of Sweden.

Jackelén is married to the Lutheran pastor Heinz Jackelén and has two daughters. On November 18, 2016, she received an honorary doctorate from the Theological Faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University of Greifswald .

Works

  • Time and eternity. The question of time in church, theology and science . Neukirchener Verlag, Neukirchen-Vluyn 2002, ISBN 978-3-7887-1900-5 (Original title: Time and Eternity. The question of time in church, natural science and theology . Lund 1999.).
  • Antje Jackelén: Time and Eternity. In: Dialog Theology & Natural Sciences. Evangelical Academy in the Rhineland, December 2012, accessed on December 10, 2017 .

Web links

Commons : Antje Jackelén  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ taz.de : A migrant becomes Archbishop of Reinhard Wolff, published June 16, 2014, last accessed June 16, 2014.
  2. ↑ About Archbishop Antje Jackelén
  3. ↑ Honorary doctors from the University of Greifswald. In: uni-reifswald.de. Ernst Moritz Arndt University of Greifswald, accessed on January 19, 2017 .
predecessor Office successor
Wejryd is different Archbishop of Uppsala
since 2014 		-
Christina Odenberg Bishop of Lund
2006–2014 		Johan Tyrberg
personal data
SURNAME Jackelén, Antje
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zöllner, Antje (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swedish Lutheran theologian, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden
DATE OF BIRTH 4th June 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Herdecke