Arbetsgemenskapen Kyrklig Förnyelse (aKF), ''

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'' in Church of Sweden, is the umbrella organisation for the Lutheran High Church movement in the

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. The organisation's beginnings were originally inspired by the book " Kyrklig förnyelse" by Father

Gunnar Rosendal Gunnar Rosendal (4 April 1897 – 26 December 1988) was a Swedish Lutheran priest, Doctor of Theology, and parish priest of Osby. Through his books promoting High Church Lutheran theology and spirituality, especially '' Kyrklig förnyelse'' (193 ...

and it already existed a long time before its official foundation on 28 April 1959. The annual assembly of aKF is in

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in August. Theologically the aKF is orthodox and in opposition to Folk Church ideology and the general theological liberalism in the

. One well known member of this organisation was a Swedish-Canadian scholar

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. The aKF's sister organisations are

in the

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, Bønne- og arbeidsfellesskapet Kirkelig Fornyelse in Norway, Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kirchliche Erneuerung in der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Bayern in Germany, and ''Kirkelig Fornyelse'' in

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Chairmen of aKF

# The Very Reverend Dr Gustaf Adolf Danell (Dean of Växjö) # The Right Reverend Dr Dr Olof Herrlin (Bishop of Visby) # The Very Reverend Dr Per-Olof Sjögren (Dean of Gothenburg) # The Right Reverend Dr

Bertil Gärtner Bertil Edgar Gärtner (13 December 1924 – 20 September 2009) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991) and professor of New Testament exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, United States. In 1969 Gärtner became provost ...

(Bishop of Gothenburg) # The Reverend Dr Bengt Holmberg (Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Lund) # The Very Reverend Ove Lundin (Dean of Visby)

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* * Photographs from the aKF assembly in Uppsala, 2003
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