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 The
High altar is the Cathedral's foremost altar. Services on great Holy
days and church festivals are lead from here. All Swedish bishops
are ordained at this altar, as well as priests and deacons of the
Archdiocese.
The
large crucifix of silver and cut crystal was made in Orrefors and
installed in the Cathedral in 1976.
Over
the altar hangs a silver chandelier made in 1647.
Below
the altar steps are the gravestones of two of the Swedish Church's
most celebrated archbishops:
Laurentius
Petri the elder, who died in 1573, was Sweden's first
evangelical-Lutheran archbishop.
Nathan Söderblom, who died in 1931, is one of the 20th
century's most famous Swedes. He was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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