Siwardus, Bishop of Uppsala

Siwardus, Bishop of Uppsala

Siwardus was a Bishop of Uppsala in the 1140s. He was probably the same person as a certain Sverinius, who is mentioned as the first Bishop of Uppsala in an early 15th century "Incerti scriptorts Sueci chronicon primorumin ecclesia Upsalensi archiepiscoporum", chronicle of Uppsala archbishops. [See [http://www.columbia.edu/acis/ets/Sweden/Uppsala1/ups1.html] . Hosted by the University of Columbia. In Latin.] Historical sources mention Siwardus in 1142 and 1143.

Siwardus apparently died in a monastery in Oldenburg in 1159 after being exiled from Uppsala by local heathens sometime earlier. There were plans to have him canonized as a saint, which never took place. [See [http://runeberg.org/nfce/0130.html] .]

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