Stein Reinertsen

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Stein Reinertsen (2012)

Stein Reinertsen (born January 21, 1960 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian Lutheran clergyman and theologian. Since 2013 he has been bishop in the diocese of Agder and Telemark of the Church of Norway .

Reinertsen studied Protestant theology at the Menighetsfakultet (parish faculty ) in Oslo and passed the theological candidate exam in 1986. After his ordination in 1987, he worked from 1989 to 1992 as the state secretary of the Christian school and student association Norges Kristelige Student og Skoleungdomslag , then until 1995 as a student pastor at the University of Environmental and Life Sciences in Ås , Akershus . After a brief activity as director of Credo Forlag , he became parish priest in Farsund , Vest-Agder in 1996 . From 2009 to 2011 he was a member of the diocese council of the diocese of Agder and Telemark, and in 2010 he was elected to the Kirkerådet , the governing body of the Church of Norway. In March 2012 he took over the office of provost in Mandal , but was elected bishop of the diocese of Agder and Telemark in December of the same year and was appointed to his office on January 27, 2013 in Kristiansand Cathedral . He was the first bishop of the Church of Norway to be installed without the involvement of the state authorities.

Reinertsen represents theologically conservative positions. In previous years he had reservations about the ordination of women , but declared that he had changed his mind after his nomination as bishop. After his election, the newspaper Aftenposten announced that Reinertsen had previously refused to marry divorced people . Reinertsen confirmed this, but stated that he left the pastors of his diocese full freedom to decide otherwise for themselves. In 2013 he belonged to the minority who voted against the introduction of same-sex marriage in the Bishops' Conference .

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Individual evidence

  1. Nå sier bispefavoritt Reinertsen ja til kvinnelige prester . In: Vårt Land , October 31, 2012 ( archive.org ).
  2. Ny biskop har aldri viet fraskilte. In: Aftenposten, December 21, 2012.
  3. Agder-biskop sa nei til å vie homofile on the Norsk rikskringkasting website , October 17, 2013.