1. Johannes Elai Terserus was a Swedish prelate and theologian who served as the Bishop of Turku from 1658 to 1664 and then Bishop of Linkoping between 1671 and 1678.
10 Facts About Johannes Terserus
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Johannes Elai Terserus was born in Leksand where his father, Elaus Ingelberti Terserus, was a vicar.
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At the age of four, Terserus lost his mother, and his father married Margareta Bure, the so-called Stormor i Dalom.
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Terserus was sent to study in Vasteras, where Bishop Johannes Rudbeckius took a special interest in his unusual statute and diligence, and whom he then accompanied on a visitation trip to Livland.
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Johannes Terserus commenced studies in Uppsala in 1628 and ordained priest in 1631.
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Johannes Terserus returned to Sweden in 1637 and resumed his position as a lecturer and became the principal of an upper secondary school and notary in the chapter of the court.
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Johannes Terserus participated in politics and became a member of the Riksdag of the Estates in 1650.
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Johannes Terserus commenced his episcopacy in 1659, after having participating in a commission for the reorganization of the Church Order.
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Johannes Terserus was then appointed vicar of Riddarholm Church in Stockholm in 1665, and in 1668 was appointed vicar of the Klara Church.
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Johannes Terserus married Elisabet Troilia in 1638 and after her death married Maria Grubb in 1657.