RELIGIOUS FIGURE

Laurentius Petri

1499 - 1573

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Laurentius Petri Nericius (1499 – 27 October 1573) was a Swedish clergyman and the first Evangelical Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden. He and his brother Olaus Petri are, together with the King Gustav Vasa, regarded as the main Lutheran reformers of Sweden. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurentius Petri has received more than 69,374 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Laurentius Petri is the 1,815th most popular religious figure (down from 1,636th in 2019), the 392nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 370th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Laurentius Petri ranks 1,815 out of 3,187. Before him are Kateri Tekakwitha, Peter III of Alexandria, Pietro Aldobrandini, Joseph Butler, Angelo Comastri, and Brynjólfur Sveinsson. After him are Nguyễn Văn Thuận, Magdalene of Nagasaki, Christoph Bernhard von Galen, Gregorio Pietro Agagianian, Sharif Ali, and Felix of Byzantium.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Laurentius Petri ranks 18. Before him are Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Michiel Coxie, Jan Łaski, Polidoro da Caravaggio, Garcia de Orta, and Sebastian Franck. After him are Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Gjon Buzuku, Lempira, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Johannes Brenz. Among people deceased in 1573, Laurentius Petri ranks 14. Before him are Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Azai Nagamasa, Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg, Michel de l'Hôpital, Malyuta Skuratov, and Joachim Beuckelaer. After him are Asakura Yoshikage, Étienne Jodelle, and Antun Vrančić.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Laurentius Petri ranks 392 out of 1,879. Before him are Alexander Skarsgård (1976), Johan Helmich Roman (1694), Art Spiegelman (1948), Stefan Persson (1947), Sven Rydell (1905), and Knut Nordahl (1920). After him are Mai Zetterling (1925), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), Vilhelm Moberg (1898), Tore Keller (1905), Bengt Strömgren (1908), and Carl Jonas Love Almqvist (1793).

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Sweden

Among religious figures born in Sweden, Laurentius Petri ranks 10. Before him are Nathan Söderblom (1866), Lars Levi Laestadius (1800), Catherine of Vadstena (1331), Johannes Magnus (1488), Prince Oscar Bernadotte (1859), and Gustav Trolle (1488). After him are Jöns Bengtsson Oxenstierna (1417), Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Ulf Ekman (1950), Anders Wejryd (1948), Eva Brunne (1954), and Anna Le Moine (1973).

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