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288 VI. GREAT KINGS AND BISHOPS (A.D. 15931718).
colonial churches. Thus we read in the diary of the
Swedish pastor, Bjork, of Wilmington :
"
We have always
been counselled and instructed from Sweden to maintain
friendship and unity with the English, so that we and
the English Church shall not reckon each other as dis
senters . . . but as sister Churches." Similarly, Andrew
Rudman, founder of the old
"
Gloria Dei
"
Swedes
Church at Philadelphia, which I visited with considerable
emotion on the 23rd September, is described on his tomb
stone as
"
a Constant Faithful Preacher in the English,
Swedes and Dutch Churches, eleven years in this
country," where he died i7th September, 1708, aged forty.
It is said that he
"
performed the functions of a clergyman
of the English congregation for near two years during the
absence of their own clergyman."
39
Gustavus Adolphus had been beaten in his attempt to
establish a centralized government of the Church, but the
need of it did not cease. Indeed, it was more and more
felt because of the distant countries round the Baltic which
were united to the Crown of Sweden, and which it was
desired to attach to the Church, so as to make the union
closer. A number of new dioceses were, however, erected
in this period. Viborg, in Finland, in 1618; Goteborg as
a superintendency in 1620, with a bishopric in 1665 ;
Karl
stad and Hernosand in 1647 first as superintendencies and
later as bishoprics (1772). Narva, in the Baltic province
of Ingermanland, was a superintendency from 1641 to 1704,
where several important Swedes e.g., a Rudbeckius and
a Gezelius were bishops. In 1645 the island of Gotland
and the diocese of Visby were at last permanently attached
to Sweden. In 1658, after the successful war of Charles
X., and the treaty of Roskilde which followed, Lund
became a Swedish bishopric. Its university was founded
in 1666.
39
For Bjork see Records of the Holy Trinity Swedes Church,
Wilmington, Delaware, from 1697 to r
773&gt; P- H3 (Hist. Soc.
of Del., 1890), and for Rudman see Prof. Kahn s Travels in
Pinkerton s Voyages, xiii., 388, Lond., 1808,
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