Antje Jackelén

The Right Reverend Antje Jackelén
Bishop of Lund and Archbishop-elect of Uppsala
Church	Church of Sweden
Diocese	Diocese of Lund
Elected	17 October 2006
Installed	15 April 2007
Predecessor	Christina Odenberg
Personal details
Birth name	Antje Zöllner
Born	(1955-06-04) 4 June 1955 Herdecke, West Germany
Nationality	Swedish and German
Denomination	Lutheran (Church of Sweden)
Spouse	Heinz Jackelén
Alma mater	University of Tübingen Uppsala University Lund University

Antje Jackelén (born June 4, 1955) is the Bishop of Lund and Archbishop-elect of Uppsala in Sweden. She was ordained a priest in the Church of Sweden in 1980 and became a doctor of Theology at Lund University in 1999. On October 15, 2013, she was elected Archbishop and primate of the Church of Sweden, thus making her Sweden's first female archbishop.^[1] She will be formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on June 15, 2014.

Biography

Jackelén was born June 4, 1955 in Herdecke, West Germany. She studied lutheran theology at the University of Tübingen and Uppsala University.

Jackelén served as a priest in Tyresö parish in the Diocese of Stockholm 1981-1988, in Gårdstånga parish in the Diocese of Lund 1988-1994 and in the Cathedral parish of Lund 1995-1996. After finishing her doctorate, she worked at Lund University 1999-2001 and was assistant professor of Systematic Theology/Religion and Science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago 2001-2003. From 2003 she was Associate Professor and Director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science until 2007.

Jackelén was elected bishop of Lund in 2006, and succeeded Christina Odenberg in 2007. Odenberg had been the first female bishop in the Church of Sweden, and Jackelén became the third. Jackelén was the first female bishop to be appointed after a popular vote in the diocese, the two former (Odenberg in 1997, and Caroline Krook, Bishop of Stockholm, in 1998) having both been appointed by the Swedish government before the separation of the Church of Sweden from the state in 2000. Jackelén was ordained bishop of Lund by Archbishop Anders Wejryd in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 April 2007, and was received in her diocese through a service in Lund Cathedral on 21 April.

Publications

Her doctoral dissertation Zeit und Ewigkeit: die Frage der Zeit in Kirche, Naturwissenschaft und Theologie (Lund 1999) was later republished on Neukirchener Verlag under the same title in 2002. A Swedish translation came in 2000 and an English translation Time & eternity: the question of time in church, science, and theology was published in 2005. She was the speaker at the 2003 Goshen Conference on Religion and Science, a conference that features noted academics in the field of religion and science. The proceedings were published by Pandora Press.

Private life

Her husband, Heinz Jackelén, is also a priest, and they have two daughters.

Theological views

Jackelén doesn't believe in the virgin birth of Jesus. She has sayed that the virgin birth is a mythological term or a metaphor rather than an actual event. She endorses the theory of evolution and sees no contradiction in believing both in God and in evolution.^{[2][3][4][5][6][7][8]}

References

External links

• http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/default.aspx?id=640045
• http://sydsvenskan.se/webbtv/webbtv_skane/article234276.ece?context=webbtv (Interview in Swedish, at the website of newspaper Sydsvenska Dagbladet)
• http://sydsvenskan.se/skane/article190295.ece (Article on the election)
• http://www.templetonpress.org/book.asp?book_id=76 (Time & eternity, Templeton Foundation Press)
• http://www.elca.org/What-We-Believe/Social-Issues/Faith-Science-and-Technology/Covalence-Divine-Action-9.aspx (Article on Divine Action)

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