Antje Jackelén

Antje Jackelén, born publican ( born June 4, 1955 in Herdecke, Germany ), the Lutheran Bishop of Lund in Sweden. On 15 October 2013, it was voted Erzbischöfin the Church of Sweden and will take office on June 15, 2014.

Biography

After graduation in 1973 at the Municipal Gymnasium in Wetter (Ruhr) Antje Jackelén studied theology, first from 1974 to 1977 at the Church University Bielefeld - Bethel, and at the University of Tübingen, then to 1979 at the University of Uppsala. Jackelén was ordained as a pastor in 1980 in the Church of Sweden, reaching in 1999 the Doctor of Theology at the University of Lund. Her dissertation dealt with the theme of time and eternity: the question of time in church, theology and science.

Jackelén served from 1981 to 1988 as pastor in the parish in the Diocese of Stockholm Tyresö. After that she was from 1988 to 1994 in the parish in the Diocese of Lund Gårdstånga active and in the Cathedral parish in the Diocese of Lund from 1995 on to 1996.

After receiving her doctorate, she worked from 1999 to 2001 at the University of Lund and was from 2001 to 2003 as a professor of Systematic theology, religion and science at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago hired. From 2003 she was a professor and director of the Zygon Center for Religion and Science. In 2007 she was elected bishop of Lund and followed Christina Odenburg in this office. After Odenburg and Caroline Krook Jackelén was the third Bishop in the Church of Sweden. The choice of Antje Jackelén was doubly a novelty in the Church of Sweden. Firstly, because it was the first bishop who was elected by the church itself (before the Swedish state had the bishops appointed ). In addition, their choice for bishop was also the first bishop election, which was decided in the first round of voting. On April 15, 2007 Jackelén was consecrated in the Cathedral of Uppsala.

Jackelén is married to the Lutheran Pastor Heinz Jackelén and has two daughters.

Works

• Time and Eternity: the question of time in church, theology and science, Lund 1999 Neukirchener Verlag ( 2002)
• Short online articles on " Time and Eternity "