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The Catholic Church per se, however, was not allowed to operate in Norway between 1537 and 1843, and throughout most of this period, Catholic priests faced execution. [ citation needed ] In 1582, the scattered Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a papal nuncio in Cologne , however, with ...
The Catholic Church in Norway (where the state church is Lutheran) and its overseas territories has no ecclesiastical province nor belongs to any (all sees being exempt, i.e. directly subject to the Holy See) nor has a national episcopal conference, but the Norwegian Catholic episcopate partakes in the Episcopal conference of Scandinavia.
The Heddal Stave Church in Notodden, the largest stave church in Norway. Religion in Norway is dominated by Lutheran Christianity, with 63.7% of the population belonging to the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Norway in 2022. [1] [2] The Catholic Church is the next largest Christian church at 3.1%. [3] The unaffiliated make up 18.3% of the ...
The Catholic Church in Norway is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope and the Curia in Rome. Per 1 January 2020 the church had 165,254 registered members. [25] The number has more than doubled since 2010 from approximately 67,000 members, mainly due to high immigration. [27]
About 1600 church buildings are affiliated with the Church of Norway. [1] The Catholic church of Norway has about 100,000 members (2012 numbers) [25] and is organised in 35 congregations with their own churches. Old Moster Church, possibly the oldest in Norway, site of the Moster Thing where Christianity was made law of the land (around 1024). [26]
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The Cathedral of Our Lady [1] (Norwegian: Vår Frue domkirke), also commonly known as the Church of Our Lady, [2] is the Catholic cathedral of the city of Tromsø, Norway, [3] and seat of the prelature of the same name. It is the northernmost Catholic (and Christian in general) cathedral in the world. It is located on the Erling Bangsunds square.
St Swithun is the Patron saint of Stavanger, and the Stavanger Cathedral of the Church of Norway, built in 1125, was dedicated to St. Svithun, centuries before the Protestant Reformation. [1] [2] The first Catholic church in Stavanger after the Reformation was consecrated in 1898. The current postmodern church was designed by architect Thomas ...