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unusual facts about Church of Norway


Caroline Schytte Jensen

She was married to Svend Holst Jensen (1846–1908), a clergyman in the Church of Norway.


Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein

The Lutheran order established during the Protestant reformation is the common root of the Church of Denmark, the Church of Norway, the Church of Iceland and the Church of the Faroe Islands.

The Norwegian Lutheran Church in the United States

Most Norwegian immigrants to the United States, particularly in the migration wave between the 1860s and early 20th century, were members of the Church of Norway, an evangelical Lutheran church established by the Constitution of Norway.

Voll, Akershus

It belonged to the St. Hallvard's Cathedral (now in ruins) during the Middle Ages, and later the state church.


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St. Ansgar, Iowa

St. Ansgar is named for the patron saint of Scandinavia, a French Benedictine monk who Christianized much of Denmark, Sweden, and northern Germany between 830 and 865 A.D. The town is the site of a pioneer Norwegian Lutheran Church founded in December 1853 by Rev. Claus Lauritz Clausen, a Dane who was commissioned by the Lutheran Church of Norway to form congregations for Norwegian immigrants in Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota.