Johan Wingård Explained

Type:Bishop
Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Johan Wingård
Honorific-Suffix:KNO, RCXIII:sO
Bishop of Gothenburg
Church:Church of Sweden
Diocese:Gothenburg
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Term:1780–1818
Predecessor:Erik Lamberg
Successor:Carl Fredrik af Wingård
Birth Date:19 April 1738
Birth Place:Bohuslän, Sweden
Death Place:Gothenburg, Sweden
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Nationality: Sweden
Spouse:Fredrika af Darelli
Children:Johan Didrik af Wingård, Johanna Helena Wrangel, Carl Fredrik af Wingård
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Alma Mater:Uppsala University
Motto:Omnibus non placere

Johan Wingård (1738–1818) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop of the Diocese of Gothenburg of the Church of Sweden, as well as first holder of chair no. 6 of the Swedish Academy. He also served as member of the Riksdag of the Estates.

Biography

Johan Wingård was born in 1738 in Bohuslän, Sweden, to Didrik Hansson Wingård and Inger Helena (née Quilldahl). His family included several clergy; his 4th great-grandfather was the Norwegian-Swedish Protestant reformer Gude Axelsen Giedde, and his nephew was the poet Johan Börjesson. He married Fredrika (née af Darelli), daughter of . Their issue included, Johanna Helena (married Wrangel af Sauss) and Carl Fredrik af Wingård, the latter the future Archbishop of the Church of Sweden.

Wingård studied at Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet and Uppsala University, from where he received a Doctor of Theology in 1779. He was ordained priest in Saint James's Church in Stockholm in 1766, appointed vicar in 1775, and bishop of the Diocese of Gothenburg in 1780. He served at the royal court of Queen Louisa Ulrika, whose funeral he also held in the Riddarholm Church.

Bishop Johan Wingård attended as member of the Estate of the Clergy at the Riksdag of the Estates in 1778, 1786, 1789, 1792 and 1800.

He was the first holder of chair No. 6 of the Swedish Academy, a member of the Swedish Order of Freemasons, and a fellow of the Royal Swedish Pro Patria Society.

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