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had no role in his appointment. In the preliminary election on 8 February 2006, he received 33% of the votes among 14 candidates (of which only eight received any votes at all). In the first round of voting on 15 March, six candidates remained, and Wejryd received a plurality of votes, 44.6%, but not
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running a small hospital, social care activities and a nursing college), before becoming Bishop of Växjö in 1995, and
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