Talk:Catholic Church in Sweden

message: Anyone have any figures on the number of ethnic swedes who are catholic? After some serious googling i found nothing.
:  According to the US State Department http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/irf/2005/51583.htm
:"There are an estimated 145,000 Roman Catholics, of whom 82,000 are registered with the Roman Catholic Church. Approximately 85 percent of Catholics are first or second generation immigrants, the largest groups coming from Southern Europe, Latin America, and Poland. Within the Stockholm Catholic Diocese, the Armenian, Chaldean, Maronite, Melchite, and Syrian churches celebrate Mass in their respective languages. Since the 1960s approximately 100 persons have converted to Catholicism annually."  
:My suspicion is that if one went back a third generation there would be even less without immigrant ancestry.  However many of these Catholic Swedes are indistinguishable from most urban Swedes, even by surname.  The main issue is that The Law of Religious Freedom only came into effect in 1951, so it was very difficult to be a Swedish Catholic before this time, in addition the Church of Sweden has, so far, maintained apostolic succession.  Swedish Lutheranism has also been historically very conservative maintaining much Catholic theology, so converting to Catholicism has always had a strangely internationalist air and usually been a personal matter, children of Swedes who turned to Rome rarely maintained this affiliation until very recently.Moheroy 06:04, 29 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ethnic Swedes 

message: There has been an amazing amount of incorrect information in this article. Some still remains. Actually using sources could be a good way of improving it... --90.237.1.183 (talk) 23:28, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: My English isn't enough to write this, sorry. But the story is pretty much told here :sv:Toleransediktet I do find that out of scope for this article, though. --90.237.1.183 (talk) 23:33, 1 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use sources 

message: Just made a proposed refurbishment by inspiration of a former version of the Swedish article, and intend to try to improve a little further. Chicbyaccident (talk) 22:31, 28 January 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead section + infobox 

message: When the lede has more history than the section marked history, it looks like something has gone wrong. --Richardson mcphillips (talk) 21:23, 29 October 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  unbalanced article? 

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