Johannes Magnus
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Johannes Magnus was the last functioning Catholic Archbishop in Sweden, and also a theologian, genealogist, and historian.
Gothorum Sveonumque Historia (1558)
Reformation in Sweden
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The Reformation in Sweden is generally regarded as having begun in 1527 during the reign of King Gustav I of Sweden, but the process was slow and was not definitively decided until the Uppsala Synod o
Front page of the first complete Swedish translation of the Bible in 1541, known as the Gustav Vasa Bible
Interior of Storkyrkan in Stockholm, where Mass was celebrated in Swedish (instead of Latin), in 1525.
Memorial coins. King John III of Sweden and queen Catherine Jagiellon attempted to introduce a Counter-Reformation.
Dispute between Olaus Petri and Peder Galle, painting by Carl Gustaf Hellqvist (1883)