Margit Sahlin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Margit Sahlin

Swedish Lutheran priest

Date of Birth: 06-May-1914

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 01-Mar-2003

Profession: priest, author, theologian

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Margit Rigmor Sahlin (1914–2003) was a pioneering Swedish Lutheran priest.
On Palm Sunday, 10 April 1960, she became one of the first three female priests in Sweden when she was ordained by Archbishop Gunnar Hultgren in the Saint Catherine Foundation chapel at Österskär near Stockholm.
The same day Ingrid Persson was ordained in Härnösand Cathedral and Elisabeth Djurle in Stockholm.