Ulf ekman biography

Swedish pastor

Ulf Ekman (born 8 December 1950) is a former charismaticpastor and the founder of the Livets Ord (Word of Life) organization in Sweden, which brought the Word of Faith movement to that country.

Ekman is now a Catholic. Ekman is married to Birgitta Ekman and has four sons: Aron, Jonathan Ekman [sv], Samuel, and Benjamin.

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Ministry

In his youth, Ekman was a left-leaning atheist and sympathiser of Swedish Communist party KFML(r) before becoming a Christian before graduating from high school in 1970. He studied ethnography, history and theology at Uppsala University and in January 1979 was ordained in the Church of Sweden, returning to Uppsala University to work as the chaplain for several years.

He studied for a year at Rhema Bible Training Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States and upon his return to Uppsala in 1983 founded the Charismatic Evangelist church Livets Ord. He remained pastor of the church until passing on the pastorship to