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===Lutheran Churches=== In the Lutheran [[Church of Sweden]], the [[Archbishop of Uppsala]] is considered by the church as {{lang|la|primus inter pares}}.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Vad gör en ärkebiskop? - Svenska kyrkan|url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/arkebiskopen/vad-gor-en-arkebiskop|website=Church of Sweden Website (in Swedish)}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Church Structures and Regulations|url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/SVK/eng/structur.htm|website=www.svenskakyrkan.se|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080317055426/http://www.svenskakyrkan.se/SVK/eng/structur.htm|archive-date=17 March 2008}}</ref> As such, the Archbishop of Uppsala has no powers over the other 13 bishops but has some additional administrative and spiritual duties, as specified in the [[Church Order (Lutheran)|Church Order]] of the Church of Sweden.<ref name=":0" /> According to the chapter 8 of the Church Order, only the Archbishop of Uppsala can ordain a bishop. The other bishops of the Church of Sweden are peers, not subordinate, to the Archbishop of Uppsala. Among the Archbishop of Uppsala's other duties is the obligation to convene and chair the Episcopal Assembly. Unlike the other bishops, who are elected to office by members of their diocese, the Archbishop of Uppsala is elected by the entire body of the church. There is a peculiar regulation that stipulates that the total votes cast in the archdiocese of Uppsala, when electing an archbishop, "shall be divided by ten, with decimals removed", before being added to the national vote.<ref name=":0">{{cite web|url=https://www.svenskakyrkan.se/filer/9a3c1a83-62ce-43e4-9141-82558ea3ed97.pdf|title=Kyrkoordning för Svenska kyrkan (1 januari 2021)|publisher=Svenska kyrkan|website=Church of Sweden Website (in Swedish)}}</ref> In the [[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]], the [[Archbishop of Turku and Finland]] serves as the ''primus inter pares''.<ref>{{cite web |title=The Archbishop |url=https://evl.fi/en/the-church/organisation/the-archbishop/ |publisher=[[Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland]] |access-date=6 December 2024}}</ref> The bishop of the [[Slovak Evangelical Church of the Augsburg Confession in Serbia]] is the primus inter pares of that denomination.<ref>{{cite web |title=Serbia: Passing on the Slovak language and the message of faith |url=https://lutheranworld.org/news/serbia-passing-slovak-language-and-message-faith |access-date=6 December 2024 |language=en |date=20 August 2021}}</ref>
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