Talk:List of 18th-century religious leaders

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Finland and Sweden[edit]

I removed all the "archbishops of Turku" from this and the 17th-century list, as no such position existed. At the time Turku, then known by the Swedish name Åbo, was one of many bishoprics in Sweden. Neither was there an Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, separate from the Lutheran church in Sweden. The separation of the Finnish Lutheran church followed from Sweden's loss of Finland to Russia in 1809, and the archbishopric of Åbo (Turku) was established as a consequence.

As for the archbishops of Uppsala, it should probably be pointed out that the archbishop was (and is still) regarded as a primus inter pares (first among equals), not really a leader of the church in the same sense as the pope. --Hegvald (talk) 17:55, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Few if any (other) Christian groups have a "leader of the church in the same sense as the pope"-- many like Finland/Sweden, if they thought such a pope was a good leadership system, would not have left the Roman Church in the first place. There is no point in indicating this for all these many such denomonations.^{şṗøʀĸɕäɾłäů∂ɛ:τᴀʟĸ} 18:42, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I see that you restored the list of bishops of Turku. Any particular reason you do not include lists of bishops for every other diocese in Sweden as well? --Hegvald (talk) 20:01, 28 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]