The Right Reverend Einar Billing D.D.
Bishop of Västerås
Church	Church of Sweden
Province	Church of Sweden
Diocese	Diocese of Västerås
Elected	1920
In office	1920–1939
Predecessor	Nils Lövgren
Successor	John Cullberg
Orders
Ordination	1900 (priest) by Gottfrid Billing
Consecration	19 September 1920 by Nathan Söderblom
Personal details
Born	Einar Magnus Billing (1871-10-06)6 October 1871 Lund, Sweden
Died	17 December 1939(1939-12-17) (aged 68) Västerås, Sweden
Nationality	Swedish
Denomination	Lutheran
Alma mater	Uppsala University

Einar Billing (6 October 1871 – 17 December 1939) was a Swedish hymnwriter and theologian. He was Bishop of Västerås from 1920 to 1939.

Billing was born 6 October 1871 in Lund. He was the son of bishop Gottfrid Billing.

Billing studied at Uppsala University and received a Bachelor of Arts in 1891 and a Bachelor of Divinity in 1898 and completed his Doctor of Divinity 1911. He also received a docent of moral theology and dogmatics in 1900. He served as assistant professor of moral theology and dogmatics from 1901 and professor of moral theology and dogmatics from 1909 at Uppsala University. Billing was ordained as a priest in the Church of Sweden in 1900 and served as a regimental pastor in Uppsala from 1901 to 1908. He was then vicar of the parishes in Hagby and Ramsta near Uppsala 1908 and vicar of the parish Heliga Trefaldighet (Holy Trinity) of Uppsala in 1909. The same year, he became a member of the Christian education society Pro Fide et Christianismo.^[1] He was elected as bishop of the Diocese of Västerås in 1920, an office he held until his death on 17 December 1939 in Västerås.

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