Carl Elis Daniel Block (12 February 18746 October 1948) was
Bishop of Gothenburg from 1929 until 1948. He was the half-brother of the mathematician Henrik Block and father of the doctor Erik Block and educator Bertil Block. He was a cousin of John Cullberg.
Biography
Block was born in Ă–xnevalla in
Ă„lvsborg County
Älvsborg County () was a county of Sweden until 1997, when it was merged with the counties of Gothenburg & Bohus and Skaraborg to form Västra Götaland County.
The county corresponded to the traditional province of Dalsland and the central ...
,
Sweden
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to Anders Herder Block, a contractor in
Ă–rby
Örby is a residential area in Söderort, Stockholm Municipality, Sweden. It has an area of 159 hectares and 4,720 inhabitants.
History
Ă–rby got its name from the Ă–rby Manor (''Ă–rby slott''), as does the neighbouring residential area of Ă ...
, and Charlotta Elisabet Cullberg. Block graduated from the
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
Higher Latin Language School on 3 June 1891, after which he studied in
Lund
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(US) and ) is a city in the provinces of Sweden, province of Scania, southern Swed ...
in the fall of 1891, becoming a candidate of philosophy on 31 January 1895. He did his theoretical exam and practical theological exam on 14 December 1897 and a dissertation trial on 8 September 1910, where he introduced The judgment chapter in his dissertation titled "Kristologien i Hegelsk bearbetning (The Hologram of Hegelian Processing)". He became a doctor of theology on 31 May 1935, and was elected on 11 January 1898. Carl Block became a church councilor in
BorĂĄs
Borås ( , , ) is a city (officially, a locality) and the seat of Borås Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 114,556 inhabitants in 2024. It is widely known for being a textile city, home to worldwide brands and companie ...
on 3 January 1906. He was also appointed as pastor in
Mölndal
Mölndal () is the seat and administrative centre of Mölndal Municipality and a part of the Gothenburg urban area on the west coast of Sweden. About 40,000 of the municipality's 60,000 inhabitants live in Mölndal proper.
Geography
Mölndal is l ...
on 10 July 1915, serving as extraordinary chief predictor between 1919 and 1938. He was elected bishop of Gothenburg on 25 February 1929.
He became a bishop in Gothenburg on 25 February 1929. He remained bishop until his death in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
on 6 October 1948. Block married Elisabet Bolin (1878-1976) on 4 September 1906. They had 5 children: Kerstin (1907-1908), Märta (born 1908), Erik (born 1910), Bertil (born 1912) and Anna-Lisa (born 1915).
[''Kvinnor i fosterländsk gärning : Samlingsverk över svenska kvinnor i arbete för land och folk'', Bokförlaget Gothia, Stockholm 1943 s. 563]
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1874 births
1948 deaths
Swedish Lutheran bishops
20th-century Swedish Lutheran bishops
19th-century Swedish Lutheran priests
Bishops of Gothenburg