Johannes Stephani Bellinus (died 1617) was a Swedish

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and

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Enköping Enköping is a locality and the seat of Enköping Municipality, Uppsala County, Sweden with 30,000 inhabitants in 2018. Geography Enköping is situated near Lake Mälaren, about 78 km west of Stockholm. A comparably large number of S ...

, Sweden. Johannes Stephani Bellinus was son to Stephanus Andreae and brother to Olaus Stephani Bellinus and Christopherus Stephani Bellinus. He served as

pastor A pastor (abbreviated as "Pr" or "Ptr" , or "Ps" ) is the leader of a Christian congregation who also gives advice and counsel to people from the community or congregation. In Lutheranism, Catholicism, Eastern Orthodoxy, Oriental Orthodoxy and ...

in Bälinge,

Archdiocese of Uppsala The Archdiocese of Uppsala ( sv, Uppsala ärkestift) is one of the thirteen dioceses of the Church of Sweden and the only one having the status of an archdiocese. Lutheran archdiocese Uppsala is the seat of the Lutheran Archbishop of Uppsala. Th ...

1572 and in

. He participated at the

Uppsala synod The Uppsala Synod in 1593 was the most important synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. Sweden had gone through its Protestant Reformation and broken with Roman Catholicism in the 1520s, but an official confession of faith had never been decla ...

in 1593. Bellinus was in good standing to the kings John III och

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but not the Duke Charles, who opposed his appointment altogether despite vocal advocacy by the local community. Johannes Stephani Bellinus was discharged from his office at the time that the same thing happened to his brother, bishop Olaus Stephani Bellinus. Despite attributions to high age, unapproval of Duke Charles seems to have been a major factor. Bellinus was succeeded by Ericus Olai Skepperus. Bellinus retreated to the estate that he had been given by King Sigismund, where he ended his days. He died in 1617 and was buried in the Church of Our Lady in

, Sweden, with the inscription:

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bellinus, Johannes Stephani Year of birth unknown 1617 deaths 17th-century Swedish Lutheran priests Archdiocese of Uppsala 16th-century Swedish Lutheran priests