Olof Sundby (6 December 1917 – 6 December 1996) was a Swedish bishop within the

Church of Sweden The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...

. He was the

archbishop of Uppsala The Archbishop of Uppsala (spelled Upsala until the early 20th century) has been the primate (bishop), primate of Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Roman Catholic Church, Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward un ...

in the period 1972–1983.

Biography

Carl Olof Werner Sundby was born at Karlskoga in

Örebro County Örebro County ( sv, Örebro län) is a county or '' län'' in central Sweden. It borders the counties of Västra Götaland, Värmland, Dalarna, Västmanland, Södermanland and Östergötland. It is frequently culturally divided into the hilly n ...

, Sweden. Sundby was ordained a priest in the

Diocese of Karlstad The Diocese of Karlstad ( sv, Karlstads stift) is a diocese of the Church of Sweden. It covers most of the provinces Värmland and Dalsland. Its current borders are from 1693. List of Bishops * Sveno Benedicti Elfdalius : 1647~1666 * Andreas B ...

in 1943. He became a doctor of theology in 1959. He was a parish priest in the parishes of St. Peter's Priory, Lund and Norra Nöbbelöv in

Lund Lund (, , ) is a city in the southern Swedish provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, across the Øresund, Öresund strait from Copenhagen. The town had 91,940 inhabitants out of a municipal total of 121,510 . It is the seat of Lund Municipali ...

from 1960–1970. He was bishop of 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 inclu ...

from 1970–1972 and

1972–1983. He was Chairman of the Swedish Ecumenical Committee 1972–1983, chaired the

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Executive Council 1973-77 and served as President of the

World Council of Churches The World Council of Churches (WCC) is a worldwide Christian inter-church organization founded in 1948 to work for the cause of ecumenism. Its full members today include the Assyrian Church of the East, the Oriental Orthodox Churches, most juri ...

1975–1983. Sundby died during 1996 and was buried at Klosterkyrkogården in Lund. Grave of swedish arch bishop olof sundby lund sweden

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*Hansson, Klas (2014) ''Svenska kyrkans primas: Ärkebiskopsämbetet i förändring 1914–1990'' (Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensi) 1917 births 1996 deaths People from Örebro County Lund University alumni Lutheran archbishops of Uppsala Bishops of Växjö People in Christian ecumenism {{Bishop-stub