Reidar Kobro (16 October 1911 – 4 November 2003) was a Norwegian priest. He was born in

Mandal A tehsil (, also known as tahsil, taluka, or taluk) is a local unit of administrative division in some countries of South Asia. It is a subdistrict of the area within a district including the designated populated place that serves as its administr ...

as a son of Reidar Kobro (1878–1966) og Emilie Knudsen (1886–1971). In 1937 he married Berit Mørland, a sister of

Arnt J. C. Mørland Arnt Jacob Conrad Mørland (1 April 1921 – 26 January 1994) was a Norwegian ship-owner. Personal life He was born in Arendal as a son of ship-owner and politician Arnt J. Mørland (1888–1957) and Constance Thomsen. A sister, Berit Mørland, ma ...

and daughter of

Arnt J. Mørland Arnt Jacobsen Mørland (23 June 1888 – 28 September 1957) was a Norway, Norwegian ship-owner, resistance member, and politician for the Christian Democratic Party (Norway), Christian Democratic Party. Personal life He was born in Arendal as a ...

. He took his secondary education at

Kristiansand Cathedral School Kristiansand Cathedral School (''Kristiansand katedralskole Gimle''), known in Latin as ''Schola Christiansandensis'', is a high school in Kristiansand, Agder, Norway. It is the oldest high school on the southern coast of Norway, having been fo ...

, and graduated from there in 1930. He enrolled as a student in the same year and graduated with the

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 from 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 ...

in 1935. He took the practical priest education in 1936 and was hired as an auxiliary priest in Åsnes in the same year. From 1937 he was a secretary at the MF Norwegian School of Theology. During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he fled to Sweden. In 1943 he was hired as a priest for the Norwegian refugees there. He returned to Norway in 1945. In 1946 he was hired as a secretary in ''Oslo småkirkeforening''. He was hired in the

Norwegian Church Abroad The Norwegian Church Abroad or ''The Norwegian Seamen’s Church'' ( no, Sjømannskirken) is a religious organisation serving Norwegians and other Scandinavians travelling abroad. Founded in 1864, The Norwegian Seamen’s Mission – Sjømannsmisjo ...

in London in 1949, and doubled as a priest at the Norwegian embassy in London from 1952. He was then 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 ...

Nøtterøy Nøtterøy is an island and a former municipality in the present-day municipality of Færder in Vestfold and Telemark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Borgheim. The parish of ''Nøtterø'' was estab ...

from 1957 to 1965,

vicar A vicar (; Latin: ''vicarius'') is a representative, deputy or substitute; anyone acting "in the person of" or agent for a superior (compare "vicarious" in the sense of "at second hand"). Linguistically, ''vicar'' is cognate with the English pref ...

in Uranienborg, Oslo from 1965 to 1971 and diocesan dean in Oslo Cathedral from 1971 to 1981. From 1964 to 1968 he chaired the

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. He chaired the MF Norwegian School of Theology's board from 1968 to 1970, and ''Oslo småkirkeforening'' from 1972. He died in November 2003 and was buried in Vestre gravlund. The road ''Reidar Kobros vei'' in Oslo has been named after him.

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1911 births 2003 deaths People from Mandal, Norway People educated at Kristiansand Cathedral School MF Norwegian School of Theology, Religion and Society alumni 20th-century Norwegian Lutheran clergy Norwegian expatriates in Sweden Norwegian expatriates in the United Kingdom Burials at Vestre gravlund {{Norway-reli-bio-stub