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4. ELFVING LAPPISH MISSION. STEUCHIUS. 331
all would be, if it could be proved, an irregularity or
failure in the consecration of Johannes Steuchius, Arch
bishop of Upsala (17301742). He had previously been
Superintendent of Carlstad (17231730), and was then
appointed Bishop of Linkoping, where, however, he does
not seem to have resided. It has been remarked that no
mention of his consecration to Carlstad, Linkoping or
Upsala is made in his funeral sermon, and it is known that
superintendents were not always consecrated. But since
Rhyzelius, who was Provost of Linkoping (1720 1743)
and then bishop (1744 1761), asserts that he was conse
crated to Linkoping by Bishop Jesper Svedberg at Skara,
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5th November, 1730 (the archbishopric being then vacant
by the death of Steuchius father, Mathias), there seems
every reason to believe the statement. It is also to be
noticed that the learned Eric Benzelius the younger, who
succeeded Johannes Steuchius both at Linkoping and
Upsala, left in manuscript a treatise on the Apostolic suc
cession, still existing in the diocesan library at Linkoping,
in which there is no reference to any anomaly in the case of
Steuchius. Nor is there any reference to it in the disserta
tion On the Canonical Succession and Consecration of the
Bishops of Sweden by the historian, E. M. Fant, pub
lished at Upsala in 1790. This difficulty may, therefore,
be dismissed.
The serious irregularities that are known are generally
of the nature of royal permissions given to superinten
dents and deans to ordain priests on account of distance,
and the difficulties which candidates had of attendance on
a bishop as, e.g., in the army, in the colony of New
Sweden, and during a vacancy, etc.
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Such irregularities
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The following are the instances kindly furnished to our
Commission by Dean Lundstrom (2ist September, 1910) :
1 (1703 1706). Superintendents of the Forces ordained
priests at Jarislov (outside Sweden) according to Olof
Wallquist (Eccl. Coll, 2, 131).
2 (17091721). General Superintendent Norberg, when a
captive in Russia, ordained two ministers at Moscow,
i3th March, 1713 (ibid., p. 130).
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