The cathedrals and churches of Norway, Sweden and Denmark (1908)
Bumpus, Thomas Francis · London, T. W. Laurie · leaf 108
l of the cathedral at Upsala. The people of Smoland say that Sigfrid passed his lastyears in Warend, where he died (c. 1002), and was buried in Vexio.* Henceforth Sigfrid became the tutelar saint of Gothland, receiving his place in the Litany. Sigfrid ordained two bishops; one at Linkoping, for… … 0 6 - — u J t/3 u 30 IP SOME ECCLESIASTICAL PARTICULARS The see of Upsala had been founded by Anscarius in830, and the bishop was declared by Pope Alexander III,in 1160, metropolitan and primate of the whole kingdom. Sigfrid was canonized about 1158 by Pope Adrian IV,an Englishman, who had himself…
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