Bo Giertz
Theologian and novelist
Bo Harald Giertz was a Swedish 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 priest. Wikipedia
Born: August 31, 1905, Borgholm Municipality, Sweden
Died: July 12, 1998 (age 92 years), Djursholm, Sweden
Buried: Torpa, Östergötland, Sweden
Children: Lars, Birgitta, Ingrid, Martin
Church: Church of Sweden
Ordination: 28 December 1934
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