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a86 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. ^593, 1718).
Laurentius made his solemn entry into the cathedral of
Upsala (i2th July, i637).
84
In September of the same year
he delivered a long oration on the principles on which he
was about to govern the diocese, which had recently been
much neglected. The two principal instruments were to
be meetings of clergy and visitations. He introduced, that
is to say, the methods which he and Rudbeckius had
already used with so much effect at Strengnas and
Vesteras.
35
He determined to hold, and did hold, an
annual synod of clergy, of which the records are preserved
to us.
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Laurentius was also, like Rudbeckius, a great educator,
and had founded the second gymnasium in Sweden in his
old cathedral city. His Ethica Christiana in seven
volumes (1617 1630) is a sort of encyclopaedia on social,
moral, and political questions.
"
From his biography,"
says Schiick,
"
more than from anywhere else it becomes
clear what an ineffaceable debt of gratitude Swedish culture
owes to the Lutheran Church ;
not only our country s
universities and schools, but the education of the lowest
class grew up under the affectionate protection of that
Church."
87
Even greater work was done for popular education and
catechizing by Johannes Matthiae, the most eminent
teacher in Sweden during the seventeenth century, the
tutor of Christina and the friend of Comenius, the famous
Moravian bishop. He was an Upsala professor, who be
came Bishop of Strengnas in 1643, and lived on till 1670.
84
See the full account of these proceedings in Laurentius
Paulinus Gothus, Hans Lif och Verksamhet, by H. Lundstrom,
pt. 3, pp. 18-29.
35
The heads of his address are given by Baaz : lib. viii., c.
10, and also the Constitutions, which he passed at his first meet
ing of the clergy, and sent round to other bishops as desirable
to be adopted elsewhere.
36
See Svenska Synodalakter frdn Upsala Arkestiftet, 1526
1800, af H. Lundstrom, Uppsala, 1908, esp. pp. 35-37 These
annual synods were continued by his successor, Provost
Lenaeus.
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Quoted by Dean Lundstrom in his Life of Laurentius,
p 124, Upsala, 1893, which is full of careful detail.
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