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7 THE NEW KYRKO-MOTE. 395
preservative Church council. According to the Swedish
fundamental law
*
the Riksdag, in conjunction with the
king, has the right to pass Church laws, to alter them, or
to repeal them ;
but for this matter the consent of a general
Kyrko-mote is requisite. Inasmuch then as the Riksdag
consists of two independent chambers, and the Kyrko-mote
need only be summoned by the king every five years, the
danger of hasty legislation is avoided, but, on the other
hand, the adoption of reasonable reforms is made difficult.
It is easier, however, to obtain changes in the sphere of
those Church matters which are within the administrative
competence of the king. To this sphere belong questions
which concern a new translation of the Bible, the Hymn-
book, the Gospel-book, the Church Hand-book and the
Catechism. In regard to these purely ecclesiastical
matters it is not necessary to consult the Riksdag, but only
the Kyrko-mote, and in this last body two-thirds of the
members must agree in order to pass a resolution.*
The Kyrko-mote
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consists of sixty members (to which
four will be added when the new diocese of Lulea is in be
ing), half of which, as I have said, are clergy and half are
laymen. All the twelve bishops are officially members of
the body, and so is the pastor primarius of Stockholm.
Then there are four professors of theology, two from
Upsala and two from Lund, and thirteen elected clergy,
one from each diocese and one from Stockholm. The lay
element is exactly equal. Each diocese is represented, but
21
1 have made use of the Memorandum on the Constitution
of the Ecclesiastical Council of Sweden, which I printed as an
appendix to the Report of the Joint Committee of the Con
vocation of Canterbury
"
On the Position of the Laity," of which
I was chairman (ed. S.P.C.K., 1902, pp. 89 foil.). It is drawn
from copies of the Royal Ordinance of i6th November, 1863,
establishing this council, and of the Working Order, adopted
5th September, 1868, and amended 6th October, 1873, which
were kindly supplied to us by Bishop Von Scheele, of Visby.
See also Dr. Holmquist s article Schweden, p. 37, and
Cornelius :
Hist., 284.
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