. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . Sigfrid la-bored with zeal and success in Yestergotland and Sma-land. He may rightly be called the second Apostle ofSweden. Olof Lapking was baptized by him in 1007and became the first Christian king of Sweden. Beforelong Christianity was spread also in Gothland (Goth-land). During the reign of the Stenkil dynasty severalChristian teachers labored with success in northern Swe-den. By the victory of Inge the Elder over Blotsven(1080) Christianity triumphed in this part of the coun-try also; and in the age of Erik the Saint there wereonly
. A church history for the use of schools and colleges . Sigfrid la-bored with zeal and success in Yestergotland and Sma-land. He may rightly be called the second Apostle ofSweden. Olof Lapking was baptized by him in 1007and became the first Christian king of Sweden. Beforelong Christianity was spread also in Gothland (Goth-land). During the reign of the Stenkil dynasty severalChristian teachers labored with success in northern Swe-den. By the victory of Inge the Elder over Blotsven(1080) Christianity triumphed in this part of the coun-try also; and in the age of Erik the Saint there wereonly a few heathen scattered here and there in the moreremote provinces. TERRITORIAL CHANGES 97 The archbishop of Bremen had jurisdiction over theChurch in the North until 1104, when the bishop ofLund was appointed by the Pope as archbishop of theseparts. Thus the North became a separate ecclesiasticalprovince which was afterwards divided into three. Apapal legate, Nicholas of Albano, was sent to accomplishthis division. He consecrated a separate archbishop. The Cathedral at Lund. for Norway with his seat at Trondhjem, in 1152. Thesame year he held a Church council, in Linkoping, Swe-den. Here the Swedes agreed like the other nations topay an annual fee to the Pope (Peter-pence). But noarchbishop could be appointed this time because of thedissension existing between the Sveas and the it was not before the year 1164, that Sweden ob- 7 y© THE MEDIAEVAL ERA tained an archbishop in the person of Stephen, a monkfrom Alvastra, with his seat at Uppsala. By degrees the Church in Sweden obtained all theprivileges that were enjoyed in other countries (). Thus for instance it was established by a royalcharter in 1200 that ecclesiastics should not be subjectto the jurisdiction of temporal courts, but be amenableonly to ecclesiastical tribunals in all civil and criminal
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