Bethel Seminary (Stockholm)

[1] The 1866 conference of the Swedish Baptists, which would eventually lead to the creation of the Baptist Union of Sweden in 1889, decided to found a seminary for the new and growing movement, calling it Bethel Seminary (Betelseminariet).

It opened in 1866 and Colonel Oscar Broady of the Union Army was the seminary's first rector.

[3] In the beginning, Bethel Seminary was located in Bethel Chapel [sv], Stockholm First Baptist Church's chapel, on Malmskillnadsgatan 48 in central Stockholm, but as of 1883 the school's address was Engelbrektsgatan 18[4] and in 1966 the seminary moved to Bromma.

From 1994, Betel folkhögskola [sv] (Bethel folk high school) was located in the later premises of Bethel Seminary in Bromma, Stockholm, which became Bromma folkhögskola [sv] on 1 February 2014.

In 2008, the then-Methodist Church Theological Seminary [sv] (which until then had been located in Gothenburg) was also added.