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The Archbishop of Uppsala is the primus inter pares among the bishops of the pre-reformation Catholic church in Sweden and the later Lutheran state church, the present Church of Sweden.

The original seat of the Archbishop was Gamla Uppsala (Old Uppsala), to the north of the present city of Uppsala. Although its exact role is controversial, Gamla Uppsala was, according to medieval sources, the seat of an important line of kings and an important religious center aleady before the christianization of Sweden. As was often the case, the church appears to have utilized the prestige of a known place of worship and secular power to establish its own position.

The present parish church of Gamla Uppsala is what remains of a much larger cathedral built in the 11th and 12th centuries. A fire in 1240 destroyed large parts of the structure. In 1273, the archbishopric, together with the relics of king Eric the Holy, was moved to the trading center of Östra Aros a couple of kilometers to the south of Gamla Uppsala, which was then renamed Uppsala. The construction of the present cathedral of Uppsala was begun in 1287 at the latest. The relics were meanwhile held in a temporary church within the limits of the plans of the new catheral. When the new catheral was inaugurated in 1435, it was still not completely finished; after completion in the following decades, it been damaged by fire a couple of times and substantially changed at every restoration.

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