Diocese of Oslo (Evangelical Lutheran)

Oslo Cathedral

The diocese of Oslo (Norwegian Oslo bispedømme ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway . It includes the municipalities of Oslo , Asker and Bærum . The diocese is divided into seven geographical deaneries , and two national (Deaf and military chaplaincy), and 53 parishes divided. It extends over an area of ​​747 km ² and had 453,502 members in 2017, which corresponds to a population of around 53%. It has the lowest proportion of all dioceses in the Church of Norway, which is due to the multi-religious situation in Oslo. Kari Veiteberg has been Bishop of Oslo since 2017 . Oslo Cathedral serves as the cathedral .

Map of the Lutheran bishoprics in Norway

history

The present diocese of Oslo was founded around 1075 under King Olav Kyrre as Dioecesis Osloensis , roughly at the same time as the two other oldest dioceses in Norway, Bjørgvin (Bergen) and Nidaros (Trondheim) . Although Anglo-Saxon missionaries played a major role in the Christianization of the area, they were initially suffragan diocese of the Archdiocese of Hamburg-Bremen . 1104 came Oslo with all Scandinavian dioceses to the newly founded church province of Lund , 1153 to the church province of Nidaros, which was newly created for the Kingdom of Norway. At the same time the Diocese of Hamar was separated from the Diocese of Oslo. The area of ​​the diocese now essentially comprised southeastern Norway, d. H. the present-day provinces of Oslo and Viken and the Vestfold area , as well as Bohuslän , which is now Sweden .

In the course of the Reformation in Denmark-Norway in 1536/37, the diocese, which was now called Aggershuus Stift (later Christiania Stift until 1919 ), became a Lutheran superintendent. It was initially managed by the Bergen superintendent Geble Pederssøn . In 1541 Hans Rev , who had officiated as the last Roman Catholic bishop of the diocese from 1525, was entrusted with the management. He also took over the Diocese of Hamar, which was founded again in 1863. In the 17th century the superintendents reassumed the title of bishop. Because Oslo, which was called Christiania or Kristiania from 1624 to 1924, was the administrative center of the Norwegian provinces in Danish times and later became the capital of Norway, which had been independent again since 1814, the bishops also had the function of primate of the Norwegian Church until 2011 .

With the transition to Sweden in 1658, Bohuslän was incorporated into the Diocese of Gothenburg , Hedmark and Oppland in 1863 into the re-established Diocese of Hamar. In 1948 Buskerud and Vestfold became a separate diocese as the Diocese of Tunsberg . In 1969 Østfold and a large part of Akershus became independent as the diocese of Borg .

Ordinaries

Catholic

1. Asgaut, approx. 1070/92
2. Thorolf
3. Aslak
4. Gerhard
5. Koll Torkelsson, until 1122/33.
6. Peter
7. Vilhelm, until 1157.
8. Torsteinn, 1157 / 61-1170.
9. Helge, 1170-1190.
10. Nikolas Arnason , 1190-1225.
11. Orm, 1226-1244.
12. Torkell, ca. 1247-1248.
13. 1248–1267 Håkon , since 1267 Archbishop of Nidaros.
14. 1267-1287 Andres
15. 1288-1303 Eyvind
16. 1304-1322 Helge
17. 1322-1351 Salomon Toraldson
18. 1352-1354 Gyrd Aslason
19. 1352-1358 Sigfrid, OP
20. 1359-1370 Hallvard Bjørnarsson
21. 1373-1385 Jon
22. 1386-1407 Eystein Aslaksson
23. 1407 Aslak Hartviktsson Bolt , Bishop of Bergen since 1408
24. 1401–1407 Jakob Knutson , Bishop of Bergen 1401–1407
25. 1420–1452 Jens Jakobsson , Danish
26. 1453-1483 Gunnar Tjostulvsson Holk
27. 1483–1488 Nils Audensson calib
28. 1489-1505 Herlog Vigleiksson Korning
29. 1506–1521 and 1524 Anders Mus
30. 1521–1524 Magister Hans Mule
31. 1525-1537 Hans Rev

Lutheran

1. 1541-1545 Hans Rev
2. 1545–1548 Anders Madssøn
3. 1548–1580 Frants Berg
4. 1580–1600 Jens Nilssøn
5. 1601–1607 Anders Bendssøn Dall
6. 1607–1617 Niels Clausen Senning
7. 1617–1639 Niels Simonsen Glostrup
8. 1639–1646 Oluf Boesen
9. 1646–1664 Henning Stockfleth
10. 1664–1699 Hans Rosing
11. 1699-1712 Hans Munch
12. 1713-1730 Bartholomæus Deichman
13. 1731-1737 Peder Hersleb
14. 1738-1758 Niels Dorph
15. 1758–1773 Frederik Nannestad
16. 1773–1804 Christen Schmidt
17. 1805–1822 Frederik Julius Bech
18. 1823–1845 Christian Sørensen
19. 1846–1874 Jens Lauritz Arup
20. 1875–1893 Carl Peter Parelius Essendrop
21. 1893–1896 Frederik Wilhelm Bugge
22. 1896–1913 Anton Christian Bang
23. 1913–1922 Jens Frølich Tandberg
24. 1922–1937 Johan Lunde
25. 1937–1951 Eivind Berggrav
26. 1951–1968 Johannes Smemo
27. 1968–1972 Fridtjov Birkeli
28. 1973-1977 Kaare Støylen
29. 1977–1998 Andreas Aarflot
30. 1998-2005 Gunnar Stålsett
31. 2005-2017 Ole Christian Kvarme
32. since 2017 Kari Veiteberg

See also

• Diocese of Oslo (Roman Catholic)

literature

• A. Taylor: Ancient See of Oslo in Norway. In: The Catholic Encyclopedia Vol. 16. The Encyclopedia Press, New York 1914 ( online resource ).
• Fridtjov Birkeli , Arne Odd Johnsen , Einar Molland (eds.): Oslo bispedømme 900 år. Historiske study. Universitetsforlaget, Oslo 1974.

Web links

Commons : Diocese of Oslo (Evangelical Lutheran)  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Oslo bispedømme. In: Store norske leksikon . February 14, 2009, accessed August 16, 2015 (Norwegian). 
• Diocese website , accessed July 26, 2018 (Norwegian).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Overview on the diocese website .
2. ↑ Table of the Statistisk sentralbyrå .