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The Benedictines, who had a monastery on the island of Selja in the Medieval ages, were asked to return to Norway. [12] There are few Catholic welfare institutions in Norway today. There are no Catholic hospitals or orphanages, but the Catholic Church operates primary and secondary schools in Oslo, Arendal and Bergen, and Bodø. [13]
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.
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 ...
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 ...
This is a list of Christian religious houses, both extant and dissolved, in Norway, for both men and women. All those before the Reformation were of course Catholic ; the modern ones are a mixture of Catholic and Protestant communities.
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]
When the Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo was established in 1953, St. Olav's was chosen as the episcopal seat and was elevated to the rank of cathedral. It is the second Catholic cathedral in Oslo. [2] St. Olav's Cathedral was visited by Pope John Paul II when he visited the Scandinavian countries in 1989. [3] St. Olav's Cathedral interior
The church became the state church of Norway around 1020, [3] and was established as a separate church intimately integrated with the state as a result of the Lutheran reformation in Denmark–Norway which broke ties with the Holy See in 1536–1537; the King of Norway was the church's head from 1537 to 2012. Historically the church was one of ...