Finnur Jónsson (16 January 1704 – 23 July 1789) was an
Iceland
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ic pastor who served as Bishop of
Skálholt from 1754 to 1785. He attended the
University of Copenhagen
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and became a pastor at
Reykholt in 1732. He was reluctant to become a bishop due to the administrative duties the office entailed. He was also an accomplished scholar. In 1774, he became the first
Icelander
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to receive a
Doctor of Theology
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degree. From 1772 to 1778, he published ''Historia Ecclesiastica Islandiæ'', a four-volume work containing publications of the church in Iceland in Latin.
Finnur's son,
Hannes Finnsson
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, succeeded his father as Bishop of Skálholt, having been ordained a bishop in 1777. Finnur's wife was Guðríður Gísladóttir (1707–1766).
See also
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List of Skálholt bishops
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References
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1704 births
1789 deaths
18th-century Lutheran bishops
Finnur Jonsson
University of Copenhagen alumni
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