Bengt Sundkler
1909–1995 (age 86)
Biography
Bengt G. M. Sundkler (May 7, 1908, in Degerfors, Västerbotten, Sweden – April 5, 1995, in Uppsala, Sweden) was a Swedish-Tanzanian and Evangelical-Lutheran Church historian, missiologist, professor and Bishop of Bukoba.
Bengt Sundkler was ordained a priest by Erik Berggrav in 1936 and then consecrated as a bishop in the Church of Sweden by Gunnar Hultgren at Uppsala Cathedral on 2 April 1961. He was elected as the Bishop of Bukoba in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Buhaya in June 1960. Bengt Sundkler, on 16 December 1984, consecrated Josiah Kibira as bishop at Bukoba Evangelical-Lutheran Cathedral and Josiah Kibira reigned as the bishop of the North-Western Diocese of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania (ELCT) until 2000, later becoming the president of the Lutheran World Federation. It is through the consecration of Josiah Kibira by Bengt G. M. Sundkler that apostolic succession from the Church of Sweden (in the line of Peder Månsson) was transmitted to what is now the Evangelical Lutheran Church in Tanzania.