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[German Version] (“readers”). The so-called “läsare” go back to the Swedish Herrnhuter revival movement (Bohemian and Moravian Brethren, Revival/Revival Movements). The movement began around 1750 in Västergötland, where the appellation läsare was first used for edification meetings characterized by diligent Bible readings. The readings attained their greatest significance in Norrland, where they gave rise to a deep and austere piety that manifested itself in frequent “village praying hours” during which laypersons read aloud…

[German Version] (Drontheim), from 1400 to 1930 Trondhjem, prior to 1400 Nidaros; an episcopal see since c. 1070 under the archbishopric of Hamburg-Bremen, after 1104 the archbishopric of Lund. In 1152/1153 the archbishopric of Nidaros was established by the legate Nikolaus Brekespear, the later pope Hadrian IV. The ecclesiastical province comprised ten suffragan bishoprics: four in Norway (Bergen, Oslo, Stavanger, Hamar), two in Iceland (Skalholt, Holar), and one each in Greenland, the Faroes, th…

[German Version] I. City and Bishopric – II. University I. City and Bishopric The earliest documentary references to Lund as a wealthy and fortified Danish city date from around 940. The Anglo-Saxon missionaries Gerbrand and Bernard evangelized the province of Skåne in the reign of Canute the Great of Denmark (995–1035). During this time, the first church was established in Lund, under the bishopric of Roskilde. At the beginning of his reign, Sweyn Estridsen (d. 1074) established two bishoprics in Skåne, o…

[German Version] (c. 1490, Herøg, Helgeland – 1557, Bergen), Norwegian churchman. Pederssøn stud-¶ ied in Alkmaar and Leuven, where he came into contact with Erasmian Humanism. At that point, he was not influenced by the Reformation. Upon returning to Bergen in 1517, he was appointed schoolmaster of the cathedral school; in 1518 he became a priest and canon associated with the Mariakirken. Sent to Rome to obtain approval for the new bishop, Olav Torkellson, he was appointed archdeacon. On the bishop’s death …

[German Version] I. General Norway is part of Scandinavia, along with Denmark, Finland, Iceland, and Sweden. It is a kingdom with a parliamentary monarchy. Its capital is Oslo. It covers an area of 323,877 km2 and has a population of about 4.8 million (2008). Most of the population live along the coast and in the south. There is a minority of some 30,000 Sami (Finno-Ugrian religions), mostly in the sparsely settled northern provinces. II. Church History The Christianization of Norway took place gradually as Viking raiders became familiar with Christian Europe. In his Gesta Hammaburgensi…