Henry was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could only be established in 1164 after the civil war, and Henry would have been sent to organize the...
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Bishop Henry surrounded by his successors as depicted in Missale Aboense
Cathedral of Turku was the center of Henry's cult.
Henry pictured in the seal of Bishop Benedictus of Turku in 1332
Henry was also venerated in the Cathedral of Lund.
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Bishop Henry baptizes the Finns at the spring of Kuppis, a pseudohistorical painting by R. W. Ekman from the 1850s in Turku cathedral
Painting of Lalli killing Henry. A romanticized drawing from the 19th century. Painting by C. A. Ekman.Religious Figures born in the 1100s 6
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Henry was a medieval English clergyman. He came to Sweden with Cardinal Nicholas Breakspeare in 1153 and was most likely designated to be the new Archbishop of Uppsala, but the independent church province of Sweden could only be established in 1164 after the civil war, and Henry would have been sent to organize the Church in Finland, where Christians had already existed for two centuries.
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