Topic: Sweden
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(1496-1560), founder of modern Sweden, reigned 1523-60. He was a grandson of Gustavus I, and succeeded his father, Charles IX. In the peace treaty Gustavus was allowed to retain important areas in East Prussia.. Gustavus was a writer of dramas, poetry, and ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Lars Vilks, a Swedish cartoonist whose sketch of the Prophet Mohammad enraged many Muslims, was head-butted on Tuesday while giving a lecture about freedom of speech, he said.A video of the incident was posted on Swedish newspaper websites and ...
It could one day happen, if a German Lutheran bishop has anything to say about it. A German Protestant bishop has urged Roman Catholic and Lutheran churches to draw up a joint declaration on their shared beliefs about the Eucharist, one of ...
Delegates of Sweden's largest church, the Lutheran Church of Sweden, approved a plan Thursday to bless gay marriages Delegates of Sweden's largest church, the Lutheran Church of Sweden, approved a plan Thursday to bless gay marriages, the AFP reported. Gay marriage became ...
King Frederick I reigned during the early years of the Reformation, the religious revolution that resulted in the establishment of Protestantism as a major branch of Christianity. After Frederick died in 1533, the bishops and other members of the predominantly Catholic Rigsr ...
During the course of what historians have called the High Middle Ages, beginning about the 11th century, the political, social, and economic structures that scholars have associated with medieval European society came to Denmark, as well as to the rest of Viking ...
Aspects of the topic Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sweden are discussed in the following places at Britannica. As the first waves of the Protestant Reformation swept Europe in the mid-1500s, Lutheranism took hold in Sweden, and it remained dominant through the 20th ...
March 24, 1381, Vadstena; feast day March 24), daughter of St. Bridget of Sweden, whom she succeeded as superior of the Brigittines.. She did not return to Sweden until after Bridget's death in 1373. She took part in the ecclesiastical controversies of ...
September 1182, Clairvaux, France), archbishop who restored the unity of the Danish church and championed its independence.. A nephew of Asser, the first archbishop of Lund (now in Sweden) and thereby primate of Scandinavia, Eskil became bishop of Roskilde in 1134 and ...
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