Diocese of Tunsberg

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The Diocese of Tunsberg (Norwegian: Tunsberg bispedøme ) is one of the eleven dioceses of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway . Jan Otto Myrseth has been bishop since 2018 . The cathedral is Tønsberg Cathedral .

history

The Tunsberg diocese was founded in 1948. Until then, its territory, the provinces ( Fylken ) Vestfold and Buskerud , which were dissolved in 2020, belonged to the diocese of Oslo . There had been plans to divide this diocese as early as 1936, but they could only be taken up again after Norway was liberated from German occupation. Bjarne Skard became the first bishop .

scope

The diocese comprises 111 parishes in ten provosts (Norwegian prosti ). Of the 526 197 inhabitants in the area, 359 239 (= 69.28%) belonged to the Church of Norway at the end of 2016.

Bishops

  1. Bjarne Skard 1948-1961
  2. Dagfinn Hauge 1961–1978
  3. Håkon Edvard Andersen 1978–1990
  4. Sigurd Osberg 1990-2002
  5. Laila Riksaasen Dahl 2002–2014
  6. Per Arne Dahl 2014–2018
  7. Jan Otto Myrseth since 2018

Web links

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Historien om Tunsberg bispedømme on the website of the Diocese of Tunsberg ( PDF file ).
  2. ↑ Årsrapport 2016 - Tunsberg bispedøme , p. 11.
  3. ↑ Årsrapport 2016 - Tunsberg bispedøme , p. 12.