Petrus Kenicius was Archbishop of Uppsala

Archbishop of Uppsala

The Archbishop of Uppsala has been the primate in Sweden in an unbroken succession since 1164, first during the Catholic era, and from the 1530s and onward under the Lutheran church.- Historical overview :...

 in the Church of Sweden

Church of Sweden

The Church of Sweden is the largest Christian church in Sweden. The church professes the Lutheran faith and is a member of the Porvoo Communion. With 6,589,769 baptized members, it is the largest Lutheran church in the world, although combined, there are more Lutherans in the member churches of...

 from 1609 to his death.

He got his education from the Universities of Wittenberg and Rostock

University of Rostock

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In 1589 he was put in prison by King John III of Sweden

John III of Sweden

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, together with, among others, Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis

Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis

Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden 1599–1600. He was appointed in place of Abraham Angermannus who had been put in prison, but before getting inducted he died of a sickness, about 50 years old.In his younger days he had been a student at the University of...

 who would become archbishop in 1599-1600. The reason were disagreements with the King's non-Lutheran liturgy

Liturgy

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After being released, he was at the Uppsala Synod

Uppsala Synod

The Uppsala Synod in 1593 was the most important synod of the Lutheran Church of Sweden. Sweden had gone through its Protestant Reformation and broken with Roman Catholicism in the 1520s, but an official confession of faith had never been declared....

 in 1593 as one of the twelve assessors. And in 1595 he was ordained Bishop of Skara.

He was considered a fine and hardworking person who dedicated much time and care to the University in Uppsala and the Church. In his old age, he was weakened by age and sickness and the archdiocese was said to have been neglected.