Stefan was the first Archbishop of Uppsala in the year 1164, a post he had until his death July 18, 1185. Uppsala Cathedral seen from the other side of the river. ... Events Count Henry I of Champagne marries Marie de Champagne. ... July 18 is the 199th day (200th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 166 days remaining. ... Events April 25 - Genpei War - Sea Battle of Dan-no-ura leads to Minamoto victory in Japan Templars settle in London and begin the building of New Temple Church End of the Heian Period and beginning of the Kamakura period in Japan. ...

Stefan was a Cistercian monk from Alvastra monastery. His origin is not known, but it is believed that he was originally from England or Germany because many monks from the monastry were from those countries and because his name was rather uncommon in Sweden at that time. Cistercians (OCist) (Latin Cistercenses), otherwise Gimey or White Monks (from the colour of the habit, over which is worn a black Catholic order of monks. ...

In 1164 Stefan travelled to Sens in France to meet the Pope_Alexander_III. The Pope was seeking refuge in Sens because of disputes in Rome. Present in Sens was another refugee: the Archbishop of Lund (Denmark), Eskil, who had been rooting for the wrong king in Denmark and thus forced in exile. Events Count Henry I of Champagne marries Marie de Champagne. ... Sens is a town of Burgundy, France. ... Alexander III, né Orlando Bandinelli (d. ...

The Pope agreed to grant Sweden an Archbishop. This matter had already been discussed a decade earlier, but because of civil conflicts it never got realized. A pallium had however been made in Lund for that occasion, and Eskild had brought it with him when he left Denmark. The pallium was now given to Stefan. The Pallium or Pall (derived, so far as the name is concerned, from the Roman pallium or palla, a woollen cloak) is an ecclesiastical vestment in the Roman Catholic Church, originally peculiar to the Pope, but for many centuries past bestowed by him on metropolitans and primates as a symbol... Lund is a city in Scania in southernmost Sweden, and the center of the Lund Municipality. ...

The Archbishop of Lund was declared primate of Uppsala, thereby given the right to ordain the Archbishop of Uppsala. The primate condition was beeing upheld for a century until political conflicts between the two countries led the Uppsala archbishopric to free itself, and thereafter the Archbishop would travel to Rome to get ordained by the Pope. A primate in the Western Church is an archbishop or bishop who has authority not just over the bishops of his own province, as a Metropolitan does, but over a number of provinces, such as a national church. ... Location within Italy The Roman Colosseum Rome (Italian and Latin: Roma) is the capital city of Italy and of its Latium region. ...

What is likely to be a protocoll from the Sens meeting is still in existence at the Swedish Royal Library. The Royal Library, or Kungliga Biblioteket (KB), is the national library of Sweden. ...

References

• Svea Rike Ärkebiskopar, Uppsala, 1935
• article Stefan (http://runeberg.org/nfcf/0620.html) Nordisk Familjebok