Caroline Krook

Märta Caroline Desirée Krook was a Swedish bishop in the Church of Sweden. In 1990 she was appointed Dean of Storkyrkan.

Biography

Krook was ordained in 1969 for the Diocese of Lund and was appointed a prison chaplain in Malmö, the first woman to do so in Sweden. She was the bishop of the Diocese of [Stockholm (Church of Sweden)|Diocese of Stockholm] from 1998 until her retirement in 2009, when she was succeeded by Eva Brunne. Krook lived in Stockholm. She died from lung cancer on 16 August 2025, at the age of 80.