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Johan Wingård
Johan Wingård (19 April 1738 – 12 January 1818) was a Swedish people, Swedish Lutheran bishop of the Diocese of Gothenburg of the Church of Sweden, as well as first holder of List of members of the Swedish Academy#Seat 6, chair no. 6 of the Swedish Academy. He also served as member of the Riksdag of the Estates. Biography Johan Wingård was born in 1738 in Bohuslän, Sweden, to Didrik Hansson Wingård and Inger Helena (née Quilldahl). His family included several clergy; his 4th great-grandfather was the Norway, Norwegian-Sweden, Swedish Protestant reformer Gude Axelsen Giedde, and his nephew was the poet Johan Börjesson. He married Fredrika (née af Darelli), daughter of . Their issue included Johan Didrik af Wingård, Johanna Helena (married Wrangel family, Wrangel af Sauss) and Carl Fredrik af Wingård, the latter the future Archbishop of Uppsala, Archbishop of the Church of Sweden. Wingård studied at Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet and Uppsala University, from where he receiv ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Right Reverend
The Right Reverend (abbreviated as The Rt Revd or The Rt Rev) is an honorific style (form of address), style given to certain (primarily Western Christian, Western) Christian ministers and members of clergy. It is a variant of the more common style "The Reverend". Usage * In the Anglican Communion and the Roman Catholicism in the United Kingdom, Catholic Church in Great Britain, it applies to bishops, except that ''The Most Reverend'' is used for archbishops (elsewhere, all Roman Catholic Church, Catholic bishops are styled as ''The Most Reverend''). * In some churches with a Presbyterian heritage, it applies to the current Moderator of the General Assembly, such as ** the current Moderator of the United Church of Canada (if the moderator is an ordained minister; laypeople may be elected moderator, but are not styled Right Reverend) ** the current Moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland ** the current Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland ** the cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |