Ingeborg Synnøve Midttømme (born 1961) is a Norwegian

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bishop for the

Diocese of Møre The Diocese of Møre ( no, Møre bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway which geographically consists of Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Its bishop is seated at the Molde Cathedral which is located in the county administrative center ...

in the

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. Midttømme was born in

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on 20 November 1961. She has been the Bishop since 2008. She was elected as the first female leader of the Norwegian Association of Clergy trade union in 2003. Midttømme attended the

MF Norwegian School of Theology MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society ( no, MF vitenskapelig høyskole for teologi, religion og samfunn), formerly the Free Faculty of Theology ( no, Det teologiske menighetsfakultet) and MF Norwegian School of Theology, is an accr ...

and graduated in 1986. She was ordained as a priest in 1987. She worked in Høybråten in Oslo from 1987 until 1993. She then became the parish priest for

Sørfold Sørfold is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Straumen. Other villages in the municipality include Leirfjordgården, ...

in the Salten region in Northern Norway from 1993 until 1997. In 1997 she took a chaplain job in Holmlia in Oslo. She was appointed Bishop of the

in 2008.

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1961 births Living people Norwegian trade unionists Bishops of Møre 21st-century Lutheran bishops Women Lutheran bishops {{Norway-reli-bio-stub