Swedish Church Law 1686
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The Swedish Church Law 1686 was a Swedish law which regulated the relationship between the state and the church in Sweden from 1686 until the Swedish Church Law 1992, as well as in Finland until 1870.
Title page of the first publication, 1687.
Uppsala Synod
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The Uppsala Synod in 1593 was the most important synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. Sweden had gone through its Protestant Reformation and broken with Roman Catholicism in the 1520s, but an offic
Swedish Church Law 1686
…and written in the three symbols of faith, Apostolic, Nicene and Athanasian, as well as in the unchanged Augsburg Confession of 1530, re-adopted in the Upsala Concilio, 1593, and declared in the whole, so-called, Libero Concordiae. With the 1686 Church Law, the rest of the Book of Concord was added to the older…
A document from the Synod