Upsala College

Upsala College was the name of an originally Swedish-American college in Kenilworth (originally New Orange), New Jersey, USA, founded in 1893. The college was shut down in 1995, after several years of financial problems.

The school was founded on the initiative of the Swedish-American Augustana Synod and immigrant Swedes and received its name partly in reference to the historic University of Uppsala in Sweden and partly in memory of the Meeting of Uppsala, which had taken place in 1593 – exactly 300 years before the founding of the college – establishing Lutheran Orthodoxy in the country after the attempts of King John III to reintroduce Roman-Catholic liturgy. (Upsala is an archaic spelling variation of Uppsala, replaced in the early part of the 20th century by the version with two P:s, except in some proper nouns which have retained the old spelling.)

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