Diocese of Linköping
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Diocese of Linköping Linköpings stift |
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Arms of the diocese of Linköping
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| Location | |
| Country | Sweden |
| Deaneries | 9 kontrakt |
| Coordinates | 58°24′40″N 15°37′02″E / 58.41111°N 15.61722°ECoordinates: 58°24′40″N 15°37′02″E / 58.41111°N 15.61722°E |
| Statistics | |
| Parishes | 56 |
| Congregations | 109 |
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| Denomination | Church of Sweden |
| Established | 12th century |
| Cathedral | Linköping Cathedral |
| Current leadership | |
| Bishop | Martin Modéus |
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| Website | |
| svenskakyrkan.se/linkopingsstift | |
The Diocese of Linköping is a diocese within the Church of Sweden administering the Östergötland County, the north eastern part of Jönköping County and the northern part of Kalmar County. It comprises nine deaneries subdivided into 176 parishes with a total of 443,000 members. The dioecese's largest parish is Motala. The Diocese of Linköping has a rank directly below the Archdiocese of Uppsala of the Church of Sweden. The current bishop is Martin Modéus.
The Diocese of Linköping was a Catholic Church Diocese up to the Lutheran reformation.
Now belonging to the Church of Sweden, under its sole Archbishop (Uppsala), it comprises Östergötland County and parts of Jönköping and Kalmar County. It has 212 parishes with a total of 443 000 members. As of 2006 Martin Modéus is bishop.
It originally included Småland, Östergötland, the Islands of Gotland and Öland. The district of Värend in Småland was taken from Linköping and formed into the Diocese of Växjö about 1160. From 990 to 1100 the Diocese of Skara embraced the whole country of the Goths (Gauthiod); it was then divided between those of Skara and Linköping. The diocese was a suffragan of the Archdiocese of Bremen, and became a suffragan of the Diocese of Lund, when the latter was elevated to an archdiocese in 1104.
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