Anders Harald Wejryd (born 8 August 1948) is a

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Lutheran clergyman. Having been

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since 1995, he was elected

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and primate of the Church of Sweden in March 2006 and took office in September of the same year. He left office in 2014, and was replaced with Antje Jackelén.

Early life and ministry

Wejryd studied at Uppsala University, where he received his

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degree in 1972. In the same year, he was ordained priest in Västerås. He has served as priest in Västerås,

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and Arboga, and was vicar of the parish Munktorp-Odensvi from 1978 to 1985, and vicar of Arboga parish and rural dean of the deanery Köping-Arboga from 1985 to 1987. In the 1980s, he continued part-time doctoral studies, doing research on Nathan Söderblom's missionary work until 1987, when his new job left him no time to continue. From 1987 to 1995 he was director of Ersta diakonisällskap (a church-connected foundation in

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running a small hospital, social care activities and a nursing college), before becoming Bishop of Växjö in 1995, and Archbishop of Uppsala in 2006.

Archiepiscopacy

Wejryd was the first Archbishop to be elected after the separation of the Church of Sweden from the state on 1 January 2000. This meant that the

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had no role in his appointment. In the preliminary election on 8 February 2006, he received 33% of the votes among 14 candidates (of which only eight received any votes at all). In the first round of voting on 15 March, six candidates remained, and Wejryd received a plurality of votes, 44.6%, but not an absolute majority, with

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as runner-up at 30.8%. A second round of voting between Wejryd and Persenius was arranged on 30 March, when Wejryd received 176 votes (58.1%) against 127 for Persenius. Wejryd took up his office on 2 September 2006. He met with Pope Benedict XVI in March 2007. In June 2010, he officiated at the wedding of Crown Princess Victoria and Daniel Westling.Royalcourt.se 2009-08-22: ''Officianter utnämnda till vigseln mellan Kronprinsessan Victoria och herr Daniel Westling''

References

CV of Anders Wejryd
at the Church of Sweden official website.
Press release
at the Church of Sweden official website on Wejryd's election as new archbishop, dated 30 March 2006. {{DEFAULTSORT:Wejryd, Anders 1948 births Living people People from Falköping Municipality Bishops of Växjö Lutheran archbishops of Uppsala 20th-century Lutheran bishops 21st-century Lutheran archbishops Uppsala University alumni