The Diet of Westeras [Sidenote: 1527] passed the necessary laws, at the same time expelling the chief leader of the Romanist party, John Brask, {138} Bishop of Linkoeping.

The Reformation was entirely Lutheran and extremely conservative.

Not only the Anabaptists, but even the Calvinists, failed to get any hold upon the Scandinavian peoples.

In many ways the Reformation in Sweden was parallel to that in England.

Both countries retained the episcopal organization founded upon the "apostolical succession." Olaus Magni, Bishop of Westeras, had been ordained at Rome in 1524, and in turn consecrated the first Evangelical Archbishop, Lawrence Petri, [Sidenote: Petri 1499-1573] who had studied at Wittenberg, and who later translated the Bible into Swedish [Sidenote: 1541] and protected his people from the inroads of Calvinism.