Bertil Gärtner

The Right Reverend Bertil Gärtner
Bishop of Gothenburg
Church	Church of Sweden
Diocese	Gothenburg
In office	1970–1991
Predecessor	Bo Giertz
Successor	Lars Eckerdal
Orders
Ordination	12 December 1948
Consecration	4 October 1970 by Ruben Josefsson
Personal details
Birth name	Bertil Edgar Gärtner
Born	(1924-12-13)13 December 1924 Gothenburg, Sweden
Died	20 September 2009(2009-09-20) (aged 84) Onsala, Sweden
Buried	Onsala, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Denomination	Lutheran
Parents	Edgar Gärtner and Karin Bolander
Spouse	(1) Margit Hultin (2) Eva Berntson
Motto	Servus Iesu Christi
Coat of arms

Bertil Edgar Gärtner (13 December 1924 – 20 September 2009) was a Swedish Lutheran bishop of Gothenburg (1970–1991), and professor of New Testament exegesis at Princeton Theological Seminary, United States.^[1]

In 1969 Gärtner became provost of Gothenburg cathedral and on 24 July 1970 bishop of the Lutheran diocese of Gothenburg. Like his predecessor Bo Giertz, Gärtner was theologically conservative and High Church. He was the writer of a number of books about the ministry of the Church as well as on New Testament subjects. He was one of the Swedish church leaders opposing the ordination of women in the Church of Sweden. He was also an episcopal Visitor of Societas Sanctae Birgittae from , Pro Ecclesia^[2] from 1990-1997, Laurentiistiftelsen from 1997-, and Markusstiftelsen from 1998-2009.

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• photograph of Bishop Gärtner
• The Experience of the Church of Sweden by Bertil E. Gärtner and Carl Strandberg from Man, Woman, and Priesthood, pp. 123-133, edited by Peter Moore, SPCK London, 1978
• Bertil bloggar, Bishop Gärtner's personal weblog