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Bengt Sundkler was born on 7 May, 1908 in Sweden, is an A 20th-century swedish lutheran bishop. Discover Bengt Sundkler's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 87 years old?
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His father was the son of Carl Gustaf Sinclair (1849-1919), the last member of the Swedish Counts dynasty Sinclair.
As ecumenist he documented Church of South India from 1900 to 1947, a cross denominational church merger in India.
Bengt G. M. Sundkler (May 7, 1908, Degerfors, Västerbotten, Sweden - April 5, 1995, Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish-Tanzanian Church historian, missiologist, professor and bishop of Bukoba.
Sundkler was the son of Gustaf Sundkler, a merchant, and Lilly Bergman.
Earlier, he had already in 1933 published the book How old is the sacrament of infant baptism and in Paris in 1937 published study Contributions a l'étude de la pensée missionaire dans le Nouveau Testament.
After studying at the universities of Uppsala, Strasbourg and Paris, Bengt Sundkler became doctor of divinity (teol.dr)1937 with a thesis on the breakthrough of missionary thinking in Sweden by the Swedish Lutheran Mission 1835-75.
He was then working as a Church of Sweden missionary in Tanganyika 1937-42 and as the superintendent of the Lutheran Haya Church there 1942-45 He then returned to Sweden and was appointed associate professor of missiology at Uppsala University in 1945 and was the 1942-45 research secretary of the International Missionary Council in London.
He wrote several books on the subject, including Bantu Prophets in South Africa in 1945, which was translated into several languages.
He wrote of the Swedish Tanzania Mission's history in the books Young Church in Tanganyika (1948) ‘Bara Bukoba’’ 1974.
His most comprehensive work is the 1200-page African church history A History of the Church in Africa, published posthumously in 2000.
Between 1949-74 he was chair professor of Church History and history of Christian missions at Uppsala University.
In 1959-61, he was vice president of the International Missionary Council.
He was an honorary doctorate in theology at the universities of Aberdeen, Tübingen, Oslo and Helsinki.
Sundkler was an acknowledged position as a researcher in ecumenism and mission work, and was a well known scholar of African church history.
The book Christian Ministry in Africa were published in 1960.
When the Haya Church 1961 introduced the episcopate, he was called back there as the first holder and was Bishop of Bukoba in Tanzania 1961-64.
1961-65, Sundkler was a member of the World Council of Churches Central Committee and delegate of the Haya Church at the WCC World Synod in Uppsala in 1968.
As a university teacher in Sweden he published Missionens värld in 1963 and a Swedish missionary atlas 1957.
Sundkler published several works on the subject of Nathan Söderblom, including in 1968 the biography Nathan Soderblom his Life and Work.
A bibliography Sundkler's publications is included in Sigbert Axelson's book, ''The Church Crossing Frontiers.
Essays on the Nature of Mission in Honour of Bengt Sundkler''.
