Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund

Maritta Tuulikki Koivunen Bylund (born 19 July 1947) is a Finnish-Swedish theologian. She was appointed Bishop of Härnösand in central Sweden on 8 November 2009; she was the fourth woman to be ordained as a bishop in the Church of Sweden. She retired on 13 December 2014.

Biography Koivunen Bylund was born on 19 July 1947 in Turku, south-western Finland, and grew up in Rauma where she matriculated from the girls' high school (Rauman tyttölyseo) in 1967. After graduating in theology from Åbo Akademi University in 1971, she was ordained a priest in the Diocese of Lund, Sweden, in the same year. is an interdisciplinary work within women's history and practical theology, which investigates the history of the charitable institution Samariterhemmet in Uppsala.