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Bernt Ivar Eidsvig

Eidsvig is the third Norwegian-born Catholic bishop in Norway since the Reformation, after Olaf Offerdahl (consecrated 6 April 1930, died 7 October the same year) and John Willem Gran (consecrated March 24, 1963, died March 20, 2008).

He remained under arrest (in Lefortovo Prison, Moscow) for 101 days before the Soviet authorities saw fit to release him, which happened after Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund and Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli made efforts to get him free.

After completing licentiate studies at Heythrop College in London, Mr Eidsvig was ordained as a diocesan priest of Oslo Catholic Diocese of St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo on June 20th, 1982 by the then Catholic Bishop of Oslo, John Willem Gran.



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