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The history of Christianity in Norway started in the Viking Age in the 9th century. Trade, plundering raids, and travel brought the Norsemen into close contacts with Christian communities, but their conversion only started after powerful chieftains decided to receive baptism during their stay in England or Normandy.
The conversion of Norway to Christianity began in 1000 AD. Prior to the conversion Norwegians practised Norse paganism. The Norwegian Bible, Bibelen.. Christianity is the largest religion in Norway and it has historically been called a Christian country.
A history of expansion of Christianity. Vol 2. The thousand years of uncertainty: AD 500–AD 1500 (1938) pp. 106–43. Latourette, Kenneth Scott.Christianity in a Revolutionary Age. A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. II: The Nineteenth Century in Europe, the Protestant and Eastern Churches (1959): pp. 131 ...
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] Christianity became the state religion of Norway around 1020, [3] and was ...
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 wealth accrued by these rulers in raids against the British Isles and other targets greatly expanded the power of the Norwegian ruling class and allowed for the establishment of a unified kingdom in Norway. [2] While Christianity had been present in Norway dating back at least to the rule of Haakon the Good (c. 920–961), the first king to ...
Christianity in medieval Norway (1 C, 15 P) Monasteries dissolved under the Norwegian Reformation (18 P) R. ... Pages in category "History of Christianity in Norway"
1536 – Denmark-Norway and Iceland go from Catholic to Lutheran; 1549 – Kingdom of Siau (Roman Catholic Church) 1553 – England returns from Anglican to Catholic; 1558 – Kabardia (E. Orthodox Church) [a] 1558 – England returns from Catholic to Anglican; 1560 – Scotland goes from Catholic to Presbyterian; 1610 – Mi'kmaq (Roman ...