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 antje jackelén archbishop of uppsala
antje jackelén

antje jackelén , born 4 june 1955 in herdecke , north rhine-westphalia , west germany , is the lutheran archbishop of uppsala in sweden and primate '' -lrb- prima inter pares -rrb- '' of the church of sweden .
on october 15 , 2013 , she was elected the 70th archbishop of uppsala and formally received through a service in uppsala cathedral on june 15 , 2014 , making her sweden 's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century , and the first female archbishop .
jackelén was ordained a priest in the church of sweden in 1980 and became doctor of theology at lund university in 1999 .
previously she was bishop of lund from 2007 to 2014 .
