Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund

The Right Reverend

Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund
Bishop Emerita of Härnösand
ChurchChurch of Sweden
DioceseHärnösand
Elected8 April 2009
In office2009–2014
PredecessorTony Guldbrandzén
SuccessorEva Nordung Byström
Orders
Ordination23 October 1971
by Olle Nivenius
Consecration8 November 2009
by Anders Wejryd
Personal details
Born
Maritta Tuulikki Koivunen

(1947-07-19) July 19, 1947 (age 77)
NationalityFinnish, Swedish
DenominationLutheran
Alma materÅbo Akademi
Uppsala University
MottoCharitas foras mittit timorem (Love casts out fear)

Maritta Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund (born 8 April 1947) is a Finnish-Swedish theologian. She was appointed Bishop of Härnösand in central Sweden on 8 November 2009; she was the fourth woman to be ordained as a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She retired on 13 December 2014.[1][2]

  1. ^ "Biskop Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund" (in Swedish). Svenska kyrkan. Retrieved 8 December 2015.
  2. ^ "Koivunen Bylund, Tuulikki (1947–)" (in Finnish). Biografiakeskus. Retrieved 8 December 2015.