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268 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
by the funeral sermon, and there seems really no doubt
about it.
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As Petrus Benedicti, of Linkoping, who was
the senior bishop, had been the consecrator of Archbishop
Abraham, it was perhaps natural that he should shrink
from consecrating some one else during his life,
5. CHARLES BECOMES KING. His CHARACTER AND
SCRUPLES. HlS SEMI-CALVINIST POSITION. HlS
CONTROVERSIES WITH ARCHBISHOP OLAUS MAR
TINI. JOHN FORBES DISPUTATION AT UPSALA
(1608). PETRUS KENICIUS ARCHBISHOP IN 1609.
DEATH OF CHARLES (1611).
Duke Charles became king in 1604. He had waited to
accept the title until his younger nephew, John, Sigis-
mund s half-brother, son of Gunilla Bielke, had attained
his majority. Charles had offered him the crown in order
to satisfy his conscience, but the young prince prudently
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We owe to Dean Lundstrom the clearing up of these points.
See his Skisser och Kritiker, p. 118 foil., and Kyrkohistorisk
Arsskrift I. p. 269 foil. (1900) and VII. p. 267 foil., 1906. The
funeral sermon was preached by J. Raumannus, and is still ex
tant. The day is also noted in Thomas Burseus Diary for 1601.
The name of the consecrator is given by E. M. Fant, De
successione canonica et consecratione episcoporum Suecice,
p. 12, Upsala, 1790. The Chapter Acts quite agree as to the day.
The entry for nth July speaks of the consecration as future. On
a later day we read that the bishops who were called to the in
auguration gave reasons for their not coming, and excused
themselves. The chapter decreed that
"
Dominus electus
"
may enter upon his office (i.e., do such duties as a bishop-elect
may do). It was decided that the bishops should be excused for
not being present, but they were to be admonished to come at
another time. The "
inauguration
"
was fixed to take place
"tempore S. Laurentii
"
i.e., in the week following August
loth. On Wednesday, i9th August, there is a record of a
divorce case,
"
Lata est sententia divortii a R.D. Archiepis-
copo." Evidently the consecration had taken place between
the loth and igth August. It was naturally on Sunday, i6th
August, the tenth Sunday after Trinity. The chapter met as
usual the Wednesday after.
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