Chapter 12 · A secular state and a multi-religious country
Vilken kristen tradition dominerade i Sverige under medeltiden, före reformationen?
Which Christian tradition dominated medieval Sweden before the Reformation?
Correct answer: Catholicism
In the Middle Ages, the church in Sweden was part of the Catholic Church. The sixteenth-century Reformation changed its position and led to a Lutheran tradition.
Key words
medeltiden · the Middle Ages
Source: SOU 2018:18: Statens stöd till trossamfund i ett mångreligiöst Sverige · 3.2, s. 84: reformationen och övergången från katolsk till luthersk kyrka
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Why this option does not fit
Den lutherska
The Lutheran tradition arrived with the Reformation, after the medieval period.
Den baptistiska
Baptism as a denomination belongs to later free-church history, not the medieval church.
Den pingstkyrkliga
Pentecostalism is a later Christian movement, not Sweden’s medieval church.