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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 ...
The Church of Norway consisting of 11 dioceses and with 3.88 million members, comprising 85.7 % of the Norwegian population. The main article for this category is Church of Norway . Subcategories
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] It was founded in 1877 in Moss.
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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 ...
The "long church" is the most common type of church in Norway and can be regarded as the prototypical or original church design. [ 2 ] [ 47 ] Typically it consists of a single rectangular (elongated) room known as the nave ( Norwegian : ship ) for the congregation, while the choir ( Norwegian : kor ) is a somewhat narrower room with a lower ...
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 Diocese of Oslo is the Church of Norway's bishopric for the municipalities of Oslo, Asker and Bærum. It is one of Norway's five traditional bishoprics and was founded around the year 1070. It is one of Norway's five traditional bishoprics and was founded around the year 1070.