Diocese of Skara
The Diocese of Skara ( Swedish Skara stift ) is one of the thirteen dioceses within the Church of Sweden . It consists of 178 parishes ( församlingar ), which are grouped into eleven provosts . The bishopric is the city of Skara with the Skara cathedral as the episcopal church.
The diocese is the oldest diocese in Sweden. Already in the 10th century there were mission bishops without a permanent seat. The appointment of Bishop Thurgot in 1014 , who was able to set up an organization with the support of the first Christian king Olof Skötkonung , is considered the foundation of the diocese, so that in 2014 with participation the Crown Princess Victoria celebrated the millennium.
Originally a missionary diocese , it comprised all of Götaland until the Linköping diocese was founded . Initially a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen , it was transferred to the church province of Lund in 1104 and to the church province of Uppsala in 1164 . The diocese played an important role in the history of the Swedish Reformation because the last Catholic bishop Magnus Haraldsson was consecrated in 1528 on the orders of King Gustav Vasa without papal confirmation. After leading a counter-Reformation uprising and fled the country, the king had Sveno Jacobi , a declared follower of Luther, consecrated as his successor for the first time in 1531 . Since the hive-off of the dioceses of Karlstad and Gothenburg in the 16th and 17th centuries, it has extended over the former province of Skaraborgs län and parts of the former province of Älvsborgs län and the province of Jönköpings län .
Erik Aurelius , the former professor of theology in Göttingen, was Bishop of Skara from 2004 to 2012 . Acting Bishop since August 2012 , the former Stockholm Cathedral propst Åke Bonnier the Younger .
See also
literature
- Johnny Hagberg (editor): Skara pen 1000 år. Skara 2014.
Web links
- The Skara diocese at the Church of Sweden
- A. Taylor: Ancient See of Skara . In: Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 16, 1914
