Peder Galle

Peder Galle (before 1476, died around 1538) was a Swedish Catholic priest, professor of theology, archdeacon of the Uppsala Diocese and member of parliament for the clergy.

As an assistant at Christian II 's coronation, he was an eyewitness of the Stockholm Bloodbath and, together with some other canons, wrote a story about the same, on behalf of the director general Gustaf Eriksson.

At the end of 1526, Gustav Vasa on the advice of Laurentius Andreæ, decided to hold a religious conversation between Lutheran doctrine and Catholicism.

To this end, the king sent ten questions to Galle in a letter on December 4, requesting that he, who was "a doctor in that helie script", should answer them in writing from his point of view before Christmas Eve.

The old information about a formal disputation in Uppsala (1524 according to Erik Jöransson Tegel, 1525 according to Peder Swart) has proved incorrect.