Lars Anders

Arborelius, OCD (September 24, 1949) - The C atholic bishop of Stockholm, Sweden since 1998, Arborelius Soreng o was born in Switzerland, the Swedish parent. He grew up in Lund in southern Sweden. At the age of 20 convert to Catholicism and entered the Carmelite convent. He studied in Bruges and in Rome. He was ordained a priest in 1979. When Arborelius replaced Hubertus Brandenburg as a Roman Catholic bishop of Stockholm (now the only Catholic diocese in Sweden, covering the entire area of the country) in 1998, was the first ethnically Swedish Catholic bishop of Sweden since the Reformation.