title: List of Swedish clergy and theologians
text: # List of Swedish clergy and theologians
  
  This is a list of Swedish clergy and theologians.
  
  ## Bishops
  
  * Mikael Agricola, bishop and reformer
  * Hans Brask, bishop
  * Bishop Henry, bishop
  * Lars Levi Laestadius, founder of the Laestadian movement
  * Christina Odenberg, first woman to become a bishop in the Church of Sweden
  * Laurentius Petri, archbishop and reformer
  * Olaus Petri, reformer
  * Nathan Söderblom, archbishop, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
  
  ## Other clergy
  
  * Israel Acrelius (1714–1800), pastor in Rialla, Wilmington, Delaware, and Fellingsboro
  * Johan Campanius (1601–1683), clergyman assigned to New Sweden, translated the Lutheran Catechism into the Lenape language
  * Elisabeth Djurle, one of the first three women to be ordained as priests of the Church of Sweden
  * Israel Israelsson Näslund III (1796–1858), pastor at Torsåker
  * Ingrid Persson (1912–2000), one of the first three women to be ordained as priests of the Church of Sweden
  * Lewi Pethrus (1884–1974), founder of the Swedish Pentecostal movement
  * Margit Sahlin (1914–2003), one of the first three women to be ordained as priests of the Church of Sweden
  * Reorus Torkillus (1608–1643), first Lutheran clergyman assigned to New Sweden
  