Antje Jackelén

Antje Jackelén, born 4 June 1955 in Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, West Germany, is the Protestant (Lutheran) archbishop of Uppsala in Sweden. She is primate (prima inter pares) of the Church of Sweden. On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala. She was formally received through a service inside the Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014. This made her the Church of Sweden's first archbishop to be born outside Sweden since the 12th century. She also became the denomination's first female archbishop.Svenska Dagbladet :Klimatet är en högst teologisk fråga. 15 June 2014.Fox News/Associated Press: Sweden elects its first female archbishop, the German-born bishop of Lund

The Church of Sweden announced on 7 December 2022 that she would retire. She laid down her bishop's staff during a church service inside the Uppsala Cathedral on 30 October 2022.

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