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Aerial view of Uppsala Cathedral’s red-brick nave and twin spires.
From the air. Photo: Kateryna Baiduzha, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Place · Cathedral

Uppsala Cathedral

The tallest church in the Nordic countries, seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala and burial place of St Eric, Sweden’s patron saint.

Location
Uppsala, Sweden
Building
Cathedral (archiepiscopal see)
Tradition
Lutheran (Church of Sweden)
Religious use
In use as a cathedral of the Church of Sweden.
Official website
Uppsala Cathedral

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The seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala, primate of the Church of Sweden, the cathedral was long the coronation church of Swedish monarchs and is the burial place of King Eric IX, venerated as the nation’s patron saint.

In the Atlas

  • Lutheranism — The Church of Sweden is Evangelical-Lutheran.

Each paragraph says whether it is documented history, a tradition handed down, or disputed.

  • Documented

    Designed in the French Gothic style by French architects including Étienne de Bonneuil, most of it was built between 1272 and 1420; the western end was completed in the mid-fifteenth century.

  • Documented

    Built under the Catholic Church, it continued as the coronation church after the Reformation. Gustav Vasa, Carl Linnaeus and Emanuel Swedenborg are among those buried there.

Reference draft. The statements were checked against the general reference sources below, read in a build session (Wikipedia at a recorded revision, and Wikidata). They have not yet been checked against scholarly or primary sources.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Uppsala Cathedral — Wikipedia (English)

    Read on 28 Oct 2026 at revision 1375964980, fetched by the research workflow (research/fetched/places/uppsala-cathedral/wikipedia.txt). A general reference work, not a scholarly source; the statements here were checked against it.

  • Reference work · Read in a build session

    Wikidata item Q850042 (Uppsala Cathedral) — Wikidata

    Read on 28 Oct 2026: instance of, religion, diocese, coordinates and official website.