About Anders Arborelius
Lars Anders Cardinal Arborelius is a senior-ranking Swedish Catholic prelate who has served as Bishop of Stockholm since 1998. Pope Francis made him a cardinal, the first ever from Scandinavia, in 2017. He is a member of the Discalced Carmelites and was considered a candidate in the 2025 papal conclave. When he succeeded Brandenburg as the Bishop of Stockholm—the only Catholic diocese in Sweden, comprising the entire country—he became the first ethnic Swedish Catholic Bishop since the Protestant Reformation. On 21 May 2017, Pope Francis announced he would make Arborelius a cardinal, the sixth Carmelite cardinal and the first Swedish national ever to hold the position, including during Sweden's 500-year Catholic history before the Swedish reformation.
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