Folke Johansson Ängel (Latin: Fulco Angelus) (died 1277) was
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 ...
.
Biography
He was
ordained
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by
Pope Gregory X in 1274 and was Archbishop of Uppsala until his death in 1277. As archbishop, he crowned King
Magnus Ladulås
Magnus III ( 1240 – 18 December 1290), also called Magnus Ladulås, was King of Sweden from 1275 until his death in 1290.
Name
He was the ''first Magnus'' to rule Sweden for any length of time, not generally regarded as a usurper or ...
in 1276.
Archbishop Ängel is best known for commissioning the moving of the
episcopal see
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Phrases concerning actions occurring within or outside an episcopal see are indicative of the geographical significance of the term, mak ...
from its location in what is now known as
Old Uppsala to Östra Aros in
Uppsala
Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inhabitants in 2019.
Located north of the ca ...
. Archbishop Ängel was buried in
Uppsala Cathedral
Uppsala Cathedral ( sv, Uppsala domkyrka) is a cathedral located between the University Hall of Uppsala University and the Fyris river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden, the national church, in the Lutheran t ...
, which started to be constructed in 1272, as a part of the project of the episcopal see.
See also
*
List of Archbishops of Uppsala
References
Nordisk familjebok, article ÄngelIn Swedish
Related reading
*Åsbrink, Gustav & Westman, Knut B. ''Svea rikes ärkebiskopar från 1164 till nuvarande tid'' (Bokförlaget Natur och Kultur, Stockholm 1935)
Roman Catholic archbishops of Uppsala
13th-century births
1277 deaths
13th-century Swedish people
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