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Lars Goran Lonnermark

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Church
  
Church of Sweden

In office
  
1989-2004

Successor
  
Erik Aurelius

Name
  
Lars-Goran Lonnermark

Diocese
  
Skara

Predecessor
  
Karl-Gunnar Grape

Ordination
  
1964

Lars-Goran Lonnermark

Lars-Goran Lonnermark, born 26 August 1939, is a Swedish bishop emeritus.

Lonnermark studied at Michigan State University in 1958-1959 through the international exchange program, where he became a member of Delta Upsilon fraternity. After returning to Sweden, he studied theology and was ordained as a pastor in the Evangelical Lutheran Church (Church of Sweden) in 1964.

He was bishop of Skara between 1989 and 2004. In 1988, he was named as high predicate of the congregation in Stockholm, and on 1 April 2007 as head predicate. Lars-Goran Lonnermark took over from head predicate Henrik Svenungsson, bishop emeritus of Stockholm.

Lonnermark took part in the wedding of Victoria, Crown Princess of Sweden, and Daniel Westling on 19 June 2010.

References

Lars-Goran Lonnermark Wikipedia