Diocese Of Mariestad

The Diocese of

Mariestad Mariestad () is a locality and the seat of Mariestad Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 16,611 inhabitants in 2019. Until 1997 it was the capital of the former Skaraborg County and an episcopal see in the Church of Sweden betw ...

( sv, Mariestads stift) was a division of the

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between 1583–1646. The diocese was never an

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, as it was under the supervision of a

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rather than a bishop. Mariestad cathedral is thus the only church building in Sweden to have gained the rank of cathedral despite never having been the seat of a bishop. (The cathedral of Kalmar was the seat of a bishop until 1915, when the diocese of Kalmar was absorbed by the

diocese of Växjö The Diocese of Växjö ( sv, Växjö stift) is one of the 13 dioceses or regional units of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. It was also a former Roman Catholic bishopric. Lutheran diocese Diocese of Växjö is situated in southern Sweden and incl ...

.) In 1646, the superintendent moved to

Karlstad Karlstad (, ) is the 20th-largest city in Sweden, the seat of Karlstad Municipality, the capital of Värmland County, and the largest city in the province Värmland in Sweden. The city proper had 65,856 inhabitants in 2020 with 95,167 inhabitants ...

and the diocese of Mariestad was absorbed into that of

Skara Skara is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecc ...

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