Church disestablishment 2000

Church disestablishment: On 1 January, the Church of Sweden was formally separated from the Swedish state — ending nearly 500 years of official state religion — in the most significant institutional religious reform of the modern era.

In the chronology of the Swedish model, this anchors 2000 under Göran Persson as a year shaped by institutions, public conflict, reform, or security policy rather than cabinet arithmetic alone.

Source confidence is B: the basic event is promoted, while broader interpretation still depends on the cited source tier and later primary-source upgrades.