Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis

Swedish archbishop (1550–1600)

The Most Reverend Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis
Archbishop of Uppsala Primate of Sweden
Church	Church of Sweden
Archdiocese	Uppsala
Appointed	1599
In office	1599–1600
Predecessor	Abraham Angermannus
Successor	Olaus Martini
Orders
Consecration	Not Consecrated
Rank	Metropolitan Archbishop
Personal details
Born	1550 Piteå, Sweden
Died	18 May 1600 Stockholm, Sweden
Nationality	Swede
Parents	Olai Bothniensis
Spouse	Elisabet Grubb

Nicolaus Olai Bothniensis (born about 1550 in Piteå, died 18 May 1600) was Archbishop of Uppsala in the Church of Sweden 1599–1600. He was appointed in place of Abraham Angermannus who had been put in prison, but before getting inducted he died of a sickness, about 50 years old.

In his younger days he had been a student at the University of Rostock^[1] and had made extensive travels through Europe.

Like Angermannus, Bothniensis had for a while been imprisoned because of his resistance to King John III of Sweden's non-Lutheran liturgy, but he had been finally released in the fall of 1592 after a total time of 1,5 years.

He became dean in Uppsala and the first professor of theology at the university there in 1593. Bothiensis was described as a fine man of high moral standards.