Arbetsgemenskapen Kyrklig Förnyelse

Arbetsgemenskapen Kyrklig Förnyelse (aKF), the "Swedish Church Union", is the umbrella organisation for the Lutheran High Church movement in the Church of Sweden.

The organisation's beginnings were originally inspired by the book "Kyrklig förnyelse" by Father Gunnar Rosendal and it already existed a long time before its official foundation on 28 April 1959. The annual assembly of aKF is in Uppsala in August. Theologically the aKF is orthodox and in opposition to Folk Church ideology and the general theological liberalism in the Church of Sweden.

The aKF's sister organisations are the Church Union in the Church of England, Bønne- og arbeidsfellesskapet Kirkelig Fornyelse in Norway,
Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kirchliche Erneuerung in der Evang.-Luth. Kirche in Bayern in Germany, and "Kirkelig Fornyelse" in Church of Denmark. [http://www.mensviventer.no/mvv8/statskirken.html]

Chairmen of aKF

# The Very Reverend Gustaf Adolf Danell (Dean of Växjö)
# The Right Reverend Olof Herrlin (Bishop of Visby)
# The Very Reverend Per-Olof Sjögren (Dean of Gothenburg)
# The Right Reverend Bertil Gärtner (Bishop of Gothenburg)
# The Reverend Bengt Holmberg (Professor in New Testament Exegesis, Lund)
# The Very Reverend Ove Lundin (Dean of Visby)

External links

* [http://www.kyrkligfornyelse.org/ arbetsgemenskapen Kyrklig Förnyelse]
* Photographs from the aKF assembly in Uppsala, 2003: [http://family.webshots.com/album/100412336aZZZmP Friday and Saturday] , and [http://family.webshots.com/album/100486281fOfmkV Sunday]