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The Church of Norway (Bokmål: Den norske kirke, Nynorsk: Den norske kyrkja, Northern Sami: Norgga girku, Southern Sami: Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. [2]
The Church of Norway consisting of 11 dioceses and with 3.88 million members, comprising 85.7 % of the Norwegian population. The main article for this category is Church of Norway . Subcategories
Map of the Church of Norway deaneries in the Diocese of Nidaros. Each municipality belongs to a deanery except for Trondheim municipality is divided over three deaneries due to its large population. This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros in Norway.
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The Bishops of the Church of Norway met together rarely, with only minutes from 1877 and 1915 surviving. The Bishop of the Diocese of Kristiania served as the chairman of both meetings. This was a reflection of the fact that the royal court order of precedence from 1817 until the 1920s ranked the Bishop of Kristiania (Oslo) firmly in front of ...
The "long church" is the most common type of church in Norway and can be regarded as the prototypical or original church design. [ 2 ] [ 47 ] Typically it consists of a single rectangular (elongated) room known as the nave ( Norwegian : ship ) for the congregation, while the choir ( Norwegian : kor ) is a somewhat narrower room with a lower ...
The Sami Church Council (n.sa. Sámi girkoráđđi, l.sa. Sáme girkoráde, s.sa. Saemien gærhkoeraerie) is the organ of the Church of Norway responsible for Sámi church life. It answers to the General Synod of the Church of Norway .
Oslo Cathedral (Norwegian: Oslo domkirke) — formerly Our Savior's Church (Norwegian: Vår Frelsers kirke) — is the main church for the Church of Norway Diocese of Oslo, as well as the parish church for downtown Oslo. The present building dates from 1694 to 1697.