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2. THE UPSALA-MOTE (1593). 255
2. THE UPSALA-MOTE, SUMMONED JANUARY, 1593. ITS
COMPOSITION AND NUMBERS. ITS SOLEMN OPEN
ING, IST MARCH. ELECTION OF NICOLAUS AS
PRESIDENT. IT ACCEPTS THE AUGSBURG CONFES
SION. ABRAHAM ANGERMANNUS ELECTED ARCH
BISHOP. HAND-BOOK OF 1571 CONFIRMED. OTHER
BUSINESS. THE AGREEMENT OF UPSALA RATIFIED
20TH MARCH.
It was natural under these circumstances that the clergy
who assembled for King John s solemn funeral procession,
3rd January, 1593, should express a strong desire for a
council. It was agreed by the duke and Council of State
that one should be held at once, and letters of summons
were issued on 9th January for 25th February. They were
addressed to the bishops, who were bidden to bring their
best and most learned priests to Upsala, in order to deter
mine concerning Church doctrine, ceremonies and dis
cipline, and to elect an archbishop and other bishops.
They were to bring with them members of their chapters,
rural deans and some priests from each hundred. No
definite programme of agenda was issued, but it was
decided that, besides the clergy, the members of the
Council of State were to take part, and that other laymen
might be present. Between the summons and the meeting
Petrus Jonas, one of the anti-liturgist professors, who had
in 1586 been elected Bishop of Strengnas in Duke Charles
dominions, was consecrated to that office (2ist January,
1593).
The Council, as I have said, was to be free to do its own
work ;
and for this and for other reasons no official person
was appointed as its president by the duke and the Council
of State. The see of Upsala was still vacant, and none of
the four bishops who attended was suited to act as presi
dent. The Bishop of Linkoping, Petrus Benedicti, whose
see was next in dignity to that of Upsala, was a weak man,
who had accepted the liturgy. Petrus Jonas of Strengnas
had Calvinistic leanings. The other two prelates who
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