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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 64,908 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Laurentius Petri is the 1,650th most popular religious figure (down from 1,365th in 2019), the 371st most popular biography from Sweden (down from 330th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Religious Figure.

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Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES

Among religious figures, Laurentius Petri ranks 1,650 out of 2,238Before him are Agobard, Giacomo Capuzzi, Adelaide, Abbess of Vilich, Patriarch Alexy I of Moscow, Eugène de Mazenod, and Dymphna. After him are Zdislava Berka, Peter of Sebaste, Ignatius Kung Pin-Mei, Baldwin of Luxembourg, Theodor Innitzer, and Saint Alban.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1499, Laurentius Petri ranks 17Before him are Michiel Coxie, Maria Salviati, Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo, Edmund Tudor, Duke of Somerset, Peter Martyr Vermigli, and Polidoro da Caravaggio. After him are Garcia de Orta, Gjon Buzuku, Jan Łaski, Sebastian Franck, Lempira, and Johannes Brenz. Among people deceased in 1573, Laurentius Petri ranks 13Before him are Johann Wilhelm, Duke of Saxe-Weimar, Azai Nagamasa, Matija Gubec, Hedwig Jagiellon, Electress of Brandenburg, Malyuta Skuratov, and Michel de l'Hôpital. After him are Joachim Beuckelaer, Asakura Yoshikage, Antun Vrančić, and Étienne Jodelle.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Laurentius Petri ranks 371 out of 1,612Before him are Knut Nordahl (1920), Carl Adolph Agardh (1785), Alexander Skarsgård (1976), Sven Rydell (1905), Oscar Swahn (1847), and Esaias Tegnér (1782). After him are Lennart Carleson (1928), Per Oscarsson (1927), Marianne Fredriksson (1927), Malena Ernman (1970), Göran Wahlenberg (1780), and Sofia Helin (1972).

Among RELIGIOUS FIGURES In Sweden

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