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Some scholars have hypothesized that, like the Catholic diocese in Iceland, Greenland may have had an unofficial bishop first, specifically "Eric the Bishop, who was sent to Greenland in the year 1112 or 1121, though others claim he was a missionary bishop, and there is no record of his return. [6]
The cathedral was founded by Greenland's first bishop Arnaldur in 1126, built of red sandstone quarried from a neighbouring hillside, in a cruciform, the only known church to be built this way in Greenland. [4] The cathedral was dedicated to the patron saint of sailors, Saint Nicholas. Changes to the cathedral structure may have taken place ...
Christ the King Church (Danish: "Kristus Kongens" sogn) is a Catholic parish in the city of Nuuk, Greenland. [1] [2] It is the only Catholic church in Greenland. The parish uses the Latin rite and is under the jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen. Although Catholicism arrived in Greenland around the year 1000, when the first ...
Bishop Álfr was ordained in 1365 and served as the last effectively residential bishop of Garðar until 1378. When Björn Einarsson Jórsalafari landed in Greenland in 1385, he found the diocese being administered by a priest. [7] The Greenland diocese disappeared in the 15th century, when ships from Norway stopped arriving. [8] [9]
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Hvalsey Church (Danish: Hvalsø Kirke; Old Norse: Hvalseyjarfjarðarkirkja) was a Catholic church in the abandoned Greenlandic Norse settlement of Hvalsey (modern-day Qaqortoq). The best preserved Norse ruins in Greenland, the church was also the location of the last written record of the Greenlandic Norse, a wedding in September 1408. [1]
The Church of Greenland consists of a single diocese, which is part of the Danish church, but is moving towards full independence. [1] In this respect it is following the example of the Church of the Faroe Islands , which is also a single diocese, and achieved full independence from the Church of Denmark in July 2007.