Diocese of Hamar

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The Diocese of Hamar (Norwegian Hamar bispedømme ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway . It includes the former provinces ( fylke ) Hedmark and Oppland (since 2020 Innlandet and the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner in Viken ) and has its seat in Hamar ; Cathedral is the Hamar Cathedral . It is in ten deaneries and 163 parishes organized in which about 120 pastors and 660 more people are employed. In 2017, the Church had 311,044 members. Solveig Fiske has been Bishop of Hamar since 2006 .

history

The Diocese of Hamar was spun off from the Diocese of Oslo in 1153 . At that time it also included parts of Buskerud and Telemark . Until the Reformation in Denmark-Norway, it belonged to the ecclesiastical province of Nidaros . From 1537 it was initially administered by the Bergen superintendent (it was not until the 17th century that the superintendent again assumed the title of bishop) Geble Pederssøn . In 1541, Hans Rev, as superintendent of the Oslo bishopric, also took over the leadership of the Hamar bishopric. The diocese became part of the Oslo diocese until it was re-established in 1863.

In 1961, the first female pastor was ordained in the Church of Norway in the Diocese of Hamar. The first Norwegian bishop, Rosemarie Köhn , also officiated in Hamar from 1993.

Bishops

For the bishops up to the Reformation see List of Roman Catholic Bishops of Norway # Bishops of Hamar .

  1. Halvor Folkestad 1864-1887
  2. Arnoldus Hille 1887–1906
  3. Christen Brun 1906–1917
  4. Otto Jensen 1917-1918
  5. Gustav Johan Fredrik Dietrichson 1918–1922
  6. Mikkel Bjønness – Jacobsen 1922–1934
  7. Henrik Hille 1934–1947
  8. Kristian Schjelderup junior 1947–1964
  9. Alexander Johnson 1964-1974
  10. Georg Hille 1974–1993
  11. Rosemarie Köhn 1993-2006
  12. Solveig Fiske 2006–

literature

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Hamar  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website of the diocese .
  2. ↑ Table of the Statistisk sentralbyrå .