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Bishop of Linköping

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ454822 ↗
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This is a list of Bishops of the Diocese of Linköping, Sweden.

Before the Reformation

Herbert?

Rikard?

1139–1160s Gisle

1170–1171 Stenar

1187–1195/96 Kol

John

1216–1220 Karl Magnusson

1220–1236 Bengt Magnusson

1236–1258 Lars I

1258–1283 Henrik

1258–1286 Bo

1286–1291 Bengt Birgersson

1292–1307 Lars II

1307–1338 Karl Bååt

1342–1351 Petrus Torkilsson

1352–1372 Nils Markusson

1373–1374 Gottskalk Falkdal

1375–1391 Nils Hermansson

1391–1436 Knut Bosson

1436–1440 ?

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This entry incorporates text from “Bishop of Linköping” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.