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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 Evangelical Lutheran Free Church of Norway (Den Evangelisk Lutherske frikyrkja i Noreg in Norwegian) or the Free Church as it is commonly known, is a nationwide Lutheran free church in Norway consisting of 81 congregations with 19,313 members in 2020, up from 18,908 in 2016. [26] It was founded in 1877 in Moss.
The Church of Norway consisting of 11 dioceses and with 3.88 million members, comprising 85.7 % of the Norwegian population.
The Evangelical Lutheran Free Church, or the Free Church as it is commonly known (Norwegian: Den Evangelisk Lutherske Frikirke, shortened Frikirken), is a nationwide Lutheran church in Norway, consisting of 83 congregations and 21,817 baptised members. [1]
Köhn was born to a German father and Norwegian mother and immigrated to Norway in 1946. [1] She graduated from the University of Oslo with a degree in theology ( candidata theologiæ ) in 1966. Köhn worked as an assistant professor in Biblical Theology at the University of Oslo from 1976 to 1989, and principal of the Practical-Theological ...
Kongsberg Church (Norwegian: Kongsberg kirke, Nynorsk: Kongsberg kyrkje) is a building and congregation of the Church of Norway located at Kongsberg in Buskerud county, Norway. [1] Kongsberg Church, a large baroque church, was designed by Joachim Andreas Stukenbrock and the construction period lasted from 1740 to 1761. It has a simple exterior ...
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 ...
On 1 January 2017, Norway made the church independent of the state, but retained the Church's status as the "people's church". [226] [227] Most Norwegians are registered at baptism as members of the Church of Norway. Many remain in the church to participate in the community and practices such as baptism, confirmation, marriage, and burial rites ...