Antje Jackelén, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Antje Jackelén

Church of Sweden archbishop since June 2014

Date of Birth: 04-Jun-1955

Place of Birth: Herdecke, Free State of Prussia, Germany

Profession: priest, theologian

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Antje Jackelén (née Zöllner; born 1955) is the Archbishop of Uppsala and primate (prima inter pares) of the Church of Sweden, the national church.
On 15 October 2013, she was elected the 70th Archbishop of Uppsala and formally received through a service in Uppsala Cathedral on 15 June 2014, making her Sweden's first foreign-born archbishop since the 12th century, and the first female archbishop.Jackelén was ordained a priest in the Church of Sweden in 1980 and became Doctor of Theology at Lund University in 1999.
Previously she was Bishop of Lund from 2007 to 2014.