Diocese of Skara

The Diocese of Skara is the oldest existing diocese in Sweden, originally a Latin bishopric of the Roman Catholic church, and due to the fact Protestant reformation a Lutheran diocese of the Church of Sweden, with its seat at Skara in Västergötland. In 2014, it celebrated its 1000,12 months anniversary as a full diocese.

It turned into based about 990 at Skara, the capital of the country Of the Geats, the complete of which it embraced till approximately 1100, whilst the eastern portion of the Diocese of Skara become formed into that of Linköping. At the beginning there has been no strict division of the united states into dioceses, and the missionary bishops went about preaching wherever they would. Thus it is that, though Odinkar Hvite the Elder turned into seemingly the first bishop stationed at Skara approximately 990, Sigurd, a courtroom bishop of King Olaf Tryggveson of Norway, is named because the first Bishop of Skara inside the listing of bishops written down approximately 1325 as an appendix to the Laws os the Western Geats.