The St. Laurence Foundation (Laurentiistiftelsen) is an independent student hostel in Sweden

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 for students at Lund University

Lund University

Lund University , located in the city of Lund in the province of Scania, Sweden, is one of northern Europe's most prestigious universities and one of Scandinavia's largest institutions for education and research, frequently ranked among the world's top 100 universities...

. The fundation belonging to the Catholic movement

High Church Lutheranism

"High Church Lutheranism" is the name given in Europe for the 20th century Lutheran movement that emphasizes worship practices and doctrines that are similar to those found within both Roman Catholicism and the Anglo-Catholic wing of Anglicanism...

 of 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...

. It was founded in 1938. Daily office is prayed and Mass celebrated in St. Laurence Church connected to the hostel.

When K. G. Hammar

K. G. Hammar

thumb|K. G. HammarKarl Gustav Hilding Hammar , commonly referred to as K. G. Hammar, is a Swedish clergyman. He was Archbishop of Uppsala, head of the Church of Sweden, from 1997 to 2006...

 became Bishop of Lund in 1992, he did not want to be responsible for the episcopal oversight of St. Laurence Foundation. St. Laurence Foundation then sought episcopal oversight from bishop emeritus Bertil Gärtner

Bertil Gärtner

Bertil Edgar Gärtner was a Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg , and professor of New Testament's exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, United States....

 and after his death from bishop emeritus Biörn Fjärstedt.

The current warden of the St. Laurence Foundation is Th.D. Carl-Johan Axskjöld.

Societas Sancti Laurentii is a confraternity

Sodality

In Christian theology, a sodality is a form of the "Universal Church" expressed in specialized, task-oriented form as opposed to the Christian church in its local, diocesan form . In English, the term sodality is most commonly used by groups in the Catholic Church, where they are also referred to...

founded in 1957 by students living in the St. Laurence Foundation.

External links

• St. Laurence Foundation