Yngve Brilioth

The Most Reverend Yngve Brilioth
Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of Sweden
Church	Church of Sweden
Archdiocese	Archdiocese of Uppsala
In office	1950-1958
Predecessor	Erling Eidem
Successor	Gunnar Hultgren
Orders
Ordination	1918
Consecration	1938 by Erling Eidem
Personal details
Born	(1891-07-12)July 12, 1891 Västervik Municipality Sweden
Died	April 27, 1959(1959-04-27) (aged 67) Uppsala Sweden
Buried	Uppsala old cemetery
Nationality	Swedish
Spouse	Brita Söderblom
Previous post	Bishop of Växjö (1938-1950)

Yngve Brilioth (1891, Västra Ed – 1959) was professor for church history, later for Practical theology in Uppsala, Turku and Lund, Lutheran Bishop of Växjö from 1938 to 1950 and Archbishop of Uppsala from 1950 until 1958.^[1] He was the author of a history of the Oxford Movement, written to coincide with its centenary in 1933. He married the daughter of a predecessor, Nathan Söderblom.

Selected bibliography

• The Anglican Revival: Studies in the Oxford Movement. London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1925.
• Eucharistic Faith and Practise. Evangelical and Catholic. London 1930.
• Evangelicalism and the Oxford Movement. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 1934.
• A brief history of preaching. Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1965.
• Landmarks in the history of preaching. London: S.P.C.K., 1950.

• Sven-Erik Brodd: The Church as Sacrament in the Writings of Yngve Brilioth. In: International journal for the Study of the Christian Church 9, 2009, S. 118-137

References

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