Laurentius Petri

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Laurentius Petri (actually Lars Petersson); to distinguish it from other bearers of the same name, e.g. B. his successor, often with the nickname Nericius (after his home province Närke ) (* 1499 in Örebro , † October 26 or October 27, 1573 in Uppsala ) was a Swedish theologian and the first Lutheran archbishop . Together with his older brother Olaus Petri, he is considered to be the reformer of Sweden .

Life

Laurentius Petri

Laurentius was the son of a blacksmith in Örebro and received his first training in the local Carmelite monastery . Otherwise little is known about his early years. He studied in Wittenberg , although not, as previously assumed, with his brother Olaus in the early 1520s, but only from 1527 (probably with a scholarship from King Gustav I. Wasa , who hoped to promote the Reformation). His teachers were mainly Martin Luther and Philipp Melanchthon , to whom he remained equally committed. In 1530 he returned to Sweden and became a schoolmaster in Uppsala.

In the summer of 1531 Laurentius was elected Archbishop of Uppsala under pressure from the king, who had previously avoided a clear break with Rome , and was consecrated on September 22nd by the Bishop of Västerås , Petrus Magni . In the opinion of the Church of Sweden , this means that the Apostolic Succession has been preserved, but the Roman Catholic Church does not recognize this.

In the following years Laurentius became the main organizer of the Evangelical Church in Sweden. Compared to the repeatedly wavering King Gustav Vasa and his sons Erik XIV. , Who were accused of crypto-calvinist inclinations, and Johann III. who, on the basis of Georg Cassander's theology, sought a compromise with the Roman Catholic Church, he was able to secure its ties to the Wittenberg Reformation, but at the same time its independence from royal power and the preservation of many traditions. He was temporarily forced to compromise. So he sat in the court that sentenced his own brother Olaus and Laurentius Andreae to death.

Laurentius was the author of numerous theological writings, including a widely used postil , and translated works by the Reformers into Swedish. In 1542 he published a hymn book (which contained a number of hymns he had composed himself as well as a translation of Luther's Small Catechism ), created the Swedish order of worship and directed the work on the first Swedish Bible (" Gustav Wasa Bible ") 1541 led. His great work was the new church order, which became legally valid a year before his death.

Laurentius Petri was married to Elisabeth Didriksdotter. Two of his daughters were married to his three successors: Margareta († 1616) with Laurentius Petri Gothus and after his death with Andreas Laurentii Björnram , Magdalena († 1614) with Abraham Angermannus .

Memorial days

Works (recent editions)

  • Laurentius Petris handskrivna kyrkoordning av år 1561 . Edited by Emil Färnström. Stockholm 1956
  • Martti Parvio: Canon ecclesiasticus; en latinsk utgåva av Laurentius Petris kyrkoordning . Finska Kyrkohistoriska Samfundet, Helsingfors 1966.
  • Messan på swensko 1557 . Facsimile edition with an introduction by S. Serenius. Uppsala 1969
  • Sven Kjöllerström (Ed.): Den svenska kyrkoordningen 1571 jämte studier kring tillkomst, innehåll och användning . Lund 1971

literature

Web links

Wikisource: Category: Laurentius Petri Nericius  - Sources and full texts (Swedish)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Laurentius Petri in the Ecumenical Lexicon of Saints
predecessor Office successor
Olaus Magnus Archbishop of Uppsala
1531 - 1573 		Laurentius Petri Gothus
personal data
SURNAME Petri, Laurentius
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Petersson, Lars; Petraeus, Laurentius; Petri Nericius, Laurentius
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish Archbishop of the Reformation
DATE OF BIRTH 1499
PLACE OF BIRTH Örebro
DATE OF DEATH October 26, 1573
Place of death Uppsala