Notable Religious People
- Saint Birgitta (1303–1373), patron saint of Europe
- Bo Giertz (1905–1998), Swedish Confessional Lutheran bishop and Christian novelist
- Lewi Pethrus (1884–1974), founder of the Swedish Pentecostal movement
- Laurentius Petri, archbishop and reformer
- Olaus Petri, reformer
- Nathan Söderblom, archbishop and Nobel Peace Prize laureate
- Emanuel Swedenborg (1688–1772), writer, mystic and philosopher; his disciples founded the New Jerusalem Church
- Eric Trolle, bishop and statesman
- Kettil Karlsson Vasa, bishop and statesman
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