Diocese of Agder and Telemark

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The diocese of Agder and Telemark (Norwegian: Agder og Telemark bispedøme ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway . Stein Reinertsen has served as bishop since 2013 . The cathedral is the Kristiansand cathedral .

history

The Diocese of Agder and Telemark was created in 1925 by dividing the Diocese of Christianssand , which had its seat in Stavanger from 1125 to 1682 as the (old) Diocese of Stavanger . In 1925 the province ( Fylke ) Rogaland formed the new diocese of Stavanger , while the provinces Vest-Agder , Aust-Agder (together Agder since 2020 ) and Telemark (since 2020 part of Vestfold og Telemark ) became the diocese of Agder . On January 1, 2005, the name was changed to the Diocese of Agder and Telemark .

scope

The diocese comprises (as of January 1, 2018) 115 parishes in ten provosts (Norwegian prosti ). In 2017 the Church of Norway belonged to 332,706 people; this corresponds to 67.3% of the population.

Bishops

1. Bernt Støylen 1925–1930 (Bishop in Kristiansand from 1914)
2. James Maroni 1930-1946
3. Johannes Smemo 1946–1951
4. Johannes Smidt 1951–1957
5. Kaare Støylen 1957-1973
6. Erling Utnem 1973–1983
7. Halvor Bergan 1983-1998
8. Olav Skjevesland 1998–2012
9. Stein Reinertsen since 2013

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Agder and Telemark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Website of the diocese of Agder and Telemark
• Agder and Telemark bispedømme in Store norske leksikon

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Agder and Telemark biskop and bispedømmeråd. Årsrapport 2017 , p. 6.
2. ↑ Table of the Statistisk sentralbyrå .
3. ↑ Agder og Telemark biskop og bispedømmeråd. Årsrapport 2017 , p. 19.