Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup (26 October 1853–23 October 1913) was a Norwegian theologian and a bishop in the

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

Personal life

Schjelderup was born in Ullensaker, Norway on 26 October 1853. He was the son of Peter Vilhelm Schjelderup and Dorothea Marie Lysholm. He had two brothers and one sister. He married Henriette Nicoline Hassel, with whom he had nine children. Their son

Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup Jr. Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup (18 January 1894 – 28 March 1980) was a Norwegian Lutheran theologian, author, and bishop of the Diocese of Hamar in the Church of Norway from 1947 to 1964. He was noted as a warm-hearted and intellectual, l ...

became a bishop as well, while their youngest son

Harald Krabbe Schjelderup Harald Krabbe Schjelderup (21 May 1895 – 19 August 1974) was a Norwegian physicist, philosopher and psychologist. He worked with all three subjects on university level, but is best remembered as Norway's first professor of psychology. He was ...

became a professor of psychology.

Career

Schjelderup took his examen artium to finish his secondary education in 1870, and graduated with a

cand.theol. Candidatus theologiæ (male), Candidata theologiæ (female), abbreviated cand. theol. is an academic degree with a long tradition, awarded after a six-year higher education in theology in Iceland, Denmark, and Norway. In Norway, the title has re ...

degree in 1875. He worked as a

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from 1876 until 1880. He then moved to

Christianssand Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

to be a

curate A curate () is a person who is invested with the ''care'' or ''cure'' (''cura'') ''of souls'' of a parish. In this sense, "curate" means a parish priest; but in English-speaking countries the term ''curate'' is commonly used to describe clergy w ...

in the Christianssand Cathedral parish from 1880 until 1890. Following that, he then became vicar of the parish of Dybvaag in 1890. During this time, he also held the role of dean of the Østre Nedenes

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

from 1896 until 1903. After leaving Dybvaag, he served as parish priest for the parish of Oddernes Church, as well as supervising the whole Otredal deanery from 1903 until 1908. He was then appointed to be the bishop of the

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, a position he held until his death on 23 October 1913. He died in the small village of

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in Sandnes municipality after falling ill during the

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of the newly built

Sviland Chapel Sviland Chapel ( no, Sviland kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the large Sandnes municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sviland in the rural borough of Sviland on the eastern edge of the city o ...

.Article about Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup Jr.
- hosted by Agder University College. He is buried in the family burial plot in the Vestre Gravlund cemetery in Oslo. He was decorated as a Knight, First Class of the

Order of St. Olav The Royal Norwegian Order of Saint Olav ( no, Den Kongelige Norske Sankt Olavs Orden; or ''Sanct Olafs Orden'', the old Norwegian name) is a Norwegian order of chivalry instituted by King Oscar I on 21 August 1847. It is named after King Olav II ...

in 1910.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Schjelderup, Kristian Vilhelm Koren 1853 births 1913 deaths University of Oslo alumni Bishops of Agder og Telemark 20th-century Lutheran bishops