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Arborelius, Swedish Cardinal
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Shield: Or issuant from a triple mount Gules in base an oaken shaft paleways showing two leaves pendant and a third erect and fructed between them with two acorns Vert and in chief two stars of six points Vert and in base a third such star Or charged on the mount.
SOURCES, NOTES & CREDITS: The illustration for background and the text are adapted from the article by Wikipedia. The blazon was contributed by John Hamilton Gaylor for which we thank him.
Lars Anders Cardinal Arborelius OCD was born on 24 September 1949. He is the senior-ranking Swedish Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever cardinal from Scandinavia in 2017. He is a member of the Discalced Carmelites.
Arborelius was born on 24 September 1949 in Sorengo, Switzerland, to Swedish Protestant parents, and grew up in Lund in Scania. He was raised as a Lutheran Protestant and always showed a lot of interest in the contemplative life, saying, "I always had this longing for a life of prayer and silent adoration." After a year-and-a-half-long process, he observed, "Truth has been given to me through the Catholic faith,” and he converted to Catholicism at the age of 20.
At first, following his conversion, he desired to be a diocesan priest, but, after reading Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's autobiography “The Story of a Soul”, he wanted to be a member of the Discalced Carmelites. In 1971, two years after he became Catholic, he entered the Carmelite order at the Norraby monastery located near the town of Tågarp in Southern Sweden. In 1977, Arborelius took his perpetual vows in Bruges, Belgium, where he then obtained his degree in philosophy and theology. He also studied modern languages at Lund University. After obtaining his doctoral degree at the Pontifical Theological Faculty Teresianum in Rome, he was ordained as a priest in Malmö on 8 September 1979.
On 17 November 1998, Pope John Paul II appointed Arborelius Bishop of Stockholm, and he was consecrated on 29 December 1998 by Bishop Hubert Brandenburg. When he succeeded Brandenburg as the Bishop of Stockholm which is the only Catholic diocese in Sweden, comprising the entire country the became the first ethnic Swedish Catholic Bishop since the Protestant Reformation.
The artwork is an interpretation of John Hamilton Gaylor.
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