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Greenland was part of the "Apostolic Prefecture of the Arctic Pole" based in Norway from 1855 to 1868. Since that time, Greenland has been part of the Danish Catholic Church hierarchy, first the Apostolic Prefecture of Copenhagen, which was raised to a Vicariate Apostolic, and later a full Catholic Diocese. [3]
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 ...
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]
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]
Greenland National Museum; Aasiaat Museum; Ilulissat Art Museum; Nanortalik Museum; Nuuk Art Museum; Qaqortoq Museum; Sisimiut Museum; Upernavik Museum; Ilulissat Kunstmuseum in Ilulissat
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 ...
Mørk vacated the seat the next year, and 39-year-old Greenland native Sofie Petersen became bishop of Greenland. Petersen is the second woman to become a bishop in the Church of Denmark. The annex building next to the cathedral is the actual seat of the bishop of Greenland, the cathedral itself does not hold the seat.
The history of Greenland is a history of life under ... In 1126 the Roman Catholic Church founded a ... U.S. National Museum of Natural History (2000). ...