Archbishop Erling Eidem (1880-1972) and archbishop Gunnar Hultgren (1902-1984) have donated their archives to Landsarkivet in Uppsala. They were learned men in a classical manner. Erling Eidem´s archive has been used by historians, particularly to see him as a collaborator with the official German Church during the Nazi time in history. If historians dig deeper into his archive they will find that Eidem was against Nazism and tried many ways to find ways out in cooperation with bishop George Bell. His sermon in Lützen in 1942 is outspoken against racim and dictatorship.
Gunnar Hultgren was Archbishop when the first women were ordained as clergy in 1960. He himself ordained the first and most well-known of them, Margit Sahlin in 1960.