Yngve Brilioth

Yngve Brilioth, born 12 July 1891 in Västra Ed, Sweden, dead 27 April 1959 in Uppsala, Sweden was a professor for church history, and later for Practical theology in Uppsala, Turku and Lund. He served as the Lutheran Bishop of Växjö between 1938 and 1950. Between 1950 and 1958, he was the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala. He was also the author of a history of the Oxford Movement, which written to coincide with its centenary in 1933. He married the daughter of a predecessor, Nathan Söderblom.

Selected bibliography
 The Anglican Revival: Studies in the Oxford Movement. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.
 Eucharistic Faith and Practise. Evangelical and Catholic. London 1930.
 Evangelicalism and the Oxford Movement. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1934.
 A brief history of preaching. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1965.
 Landmarks in the history of preaching. London: S.P.C.K., 1950.
 Sven-Erik Brodd: The Church as Sacrament in the Writings of Yngve Brilioth. In: International journal for the Study of the Christian Church 9, 2009, S. 118-137

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Category:1889 births
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Category:Archbishops of Uppsala