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;. THE NEW KYRKO-MOTE. 393
Bishop of Linkoping in 1861, where he remained till his
death in 1884. Sundberg became Bishop of Carlstad in
1864, and archbishop, as Reuterdahl s successor, in 1870,
himself dying early in 1900. Flensburg became Bishop of
Lund in 1865, and thus was able to continue the tradition
in the centre from which it originated up till 1897. It is
also still happily and worthily represented by the present
bishop. Thus Bring and his colleagues, including their
friend, Genberg, who had been professor of philosophy for
a short time, and then head of the ecclesiastical department,
and finally Bishop of Kalmar (1852 1875).
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spread the
principles of the Lund theology all over Sweden, and were
especially valuable to the Church in the critical time of the
foundation and first assembly of the Kyrko-mote, or
representative Church council, which met in September,
1868.
7. THE CHANGE IN THE RlKSDAG FROM FOUR ESTATES
TO TWO CHAMBERS (1865). THE FORMATION OF
THE KYRKO-MOTE (1863). CHURCH AND STATE IN
SWEDEN. POSITION OF THE KING. RELATION OF
THE KYRKO-MOTE TO THE RIKSDAG. ITS CON
STITUTION AND METHOD OF ELECTION. ITS
BUSINESS.
The first meeting of the Kyrko-mote was historically
connected with one of the greatest changes in the civil con
stitution of Sweden, a change carried out on the initiative
of the Prime Minister, Baron de Geers, in the year 1865.
This was the transformation of the Riksdag from an
assembly of four estates nobles, clergy, citizens and
peasants to a parliament with an upper and lower house,
with no class restrictions as to the composition of either.
It was easy to see the defects and cumbrousness of the old
system, and since the coup d etat of 1772 the house of
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Genberg was not a priest in 1852 when chosen bishop, but
he was ordained priest before his consecration, as I learn from
my friend, the present Bishop of Kalmar.
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