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Caroline Krook
1998 – August 16, 2025
Swedish bishop
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Märta Caroline Desirée Krook, born November 18, 1944 in Oscar's parish in Stockholm, died August 16, 2025 in the Högalid district in Stockholm, was a Swedish priest and bishop in the Church of Sweden, where she was bishop of the Stockholm diocese in the years 1998–2009. She was ordained a priest in 1969 and in 1990 was appointed provost of the Storkyrkan in Stockholm, thus becoming Sweden's first female provost. Her election speech as a bishop was "Be on fire in the spirit - serve the Lord".
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