Johan was a Swedish priest and Dominican friar. He served as the
Bishop of Turku from 1286 to 1290 and
Archbishop of Uppsala from 1290 to 1291.
According to some sources, Johan was born in Poland, according to others in Uppsala. Before his assignment to Turku, he worked as the
prior at the Dominican monastery in
Sigtuna
Sigtuna () is a locality situated in Sigtuna Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 8,444 inhabitants in 2010. It is the namesake of the municipality even though the seat is in Märsta.
Sigtuna is for historical reasons often still referr ...
(''Sigtuna dominikankonvent''). He died in
Avignon while travelling to
Rome
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, established_date = 753 BC
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to receive the
pallium
The pallium (derived from the Roman ''pallium'' or ''palla'', a woolen cloak; : ''pallia'') is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the pope, but for many centuries bestowed by the Holy See upon metropol ...
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References
Other sources
*Tesch, Sten (1997) ''Mariakyrkan i Sigtuna dominikankonvent och församlingskyrka 1247-1997''
*Åsbrink, Gustav & Westman, Knut B. (1935)''Svea rikes ärkebiskopar från 1164 till nuvarande tid'' (Stockholm: Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur)
*Paulsson, Göte (1974) ''Annales Suecici medii aevi'' (Stockholm: Gleerup)
13th-century Roman Catholic bishops in Sweden
Roman Catholic archbishops of Uppsala
Roman Catholic bishops of Turku
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