Bo Giertz (/bʊ yærts/ b. 31 August 1905 on Öland d. 12 July 1998 in Djursholm) was a thrice-widowed Lutheran theologian novelist and bishop of the Gothenburg Lutheran Diocese from 1949 to 1970. By the time he became bishop he was already quite well known in Sweden and elsewhere both as an author and as a pastor. He worked hard to promote western Swedish Pietism an outlook that strongly resembled Neo-Lutheranism.
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