Archbishop and senior university lecturer Petrus Kenicius Köniksson
| Father: | Trader (Birkkarl) and a lay assessor Könik Olofsson (1520 - ) | |||
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| Mother: | Wife Anna Olofsdotter | |||
| Born: | 1555 Umeå landsförs (AC), Baggböle 1) | |||
| Dead: | 1636-02-03 Uppsala 1) | |||
Family with Wife Margareta Hansdotter Gammal (1573 - 1634)
| Marriage: | 1592 |
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| Petrus studied at Uppsala University in 1575, but had to break off his studies when Uppsala University closed because o f the plague. He went 1582 for studies in Rostock and 1583 in Wittenberg, where he graduated in the Faculty of Arts as M aster of Arts in 1586. He returned to Sweden in 1587 and was appoint as a reading master in Stockholm, but was put in prison 1589 as an opponent of the liturgy from 1571 (Liturgia Svecanae Ecclesiae, called the Red Book). The liturgy of the Red Book was composed of a Swedish mass and Roman Catholic rituals. Petrus seems to be a free man in 1591 but was again put in prison and became a free man just after the King Johan III:s death in November 1592. Petrus was on of the twelfth members that supported the chairman of the Council of Uppsala in 1593 that adopted a new liturgy based on the liturgy before 1571. In August 1593 Petrus Kenicius was appointed to be 'poenitentarius' at Uppsala Cathedral. In the Parliament (Riksdag) in Söderköping 1595 he was appointed to be Bishop of Skara. In 1608 he took part in peace negotiations wit h Poland in Reval. The same year the King Karl IX appointed him as a Bishop of Strängnäs, but never entered his duties . In 1609 he became the Prochanellor of Uppsala University. King Karl IX appointed the same year Petrus Kenicius Swedish Archbishop. As archbishop he crowned the Swedish king Gustaf II Adolf in 1617. Petrus Kenicius was the clergy's speaker in the Parliament (Riksdag) 1617 to 1633. |
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| 1) | Nordisk familjebok |
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