In the other parts of Europe which formed part of the communion of the Latin Church, the ecclesiastical divisions mark the steps by which Christianity was spread either by conversion or conquest. They continued the process of which the ecclesiastical organization of Eastern Germany was the beginning. As a rule, they strictly follow the political divisions of the age in which they were founded. ♦The Scandinavian provinces.♦ As the Church in the Scandinavian kingdoms became more settled, its bishoprics parted off from their allegiance to Hamburg or Bremen, and each of the three kingdoms formed an ecclesiastical province, whose boundaries exactly answered to the earlier boundaries of the kingdoms. ♦Lund, 1151.♦ Denmark had its metropolitan see at _Lund_, in that part of the Danish kingdom which geographically forms part of the greater Scandinavian peninsula, and which is now Swedish territory. Its boundary to the south was the Eider, the old frontier of Denmark and the Empire. The suffragan sees of this province, among which the specially royal bishopric of _Roeskild_ is the most famous, naturally lie thicker on the ground than they do in the wilder regions of the two more northern kingdoms. But the Baltic conquests of Denmark also placed part of the isle of Rügen in the province of Lund and the diocese of Roeskild, and also gave the Danish metropolitan a far more distant suffragan in the Bishop of _Revel_ on the Finnish gulf. ♦Upsala.♦ The metropolitan see of Sweden was placed at _Upsala_, and the province was carried by Swedish conquest to the east of the Gulf of Bothnia, where the single bishopric of _Abo_ took in the whole of the Swedish territory in that region. ♦Trondhjem.♦ In the like sort, the Norwegian province of _Nidaros_ or _Trondhjem_ stretched far over the Ocean to the distant Colonies and dependencies of Norway in Iceland, Greenland, and Man. ♦Poland, &c.♦