The St. Mary's Church ( fo, Mariukirkjan) is a
parish of the
Roman Catholic Church located in Mariugøta 4 in the city of
Tórshavn, the capital of the
Faroe Islands,
in the
Diocese of Copenhagen
The Diocese of Copenhagen (Danish: ''Københavns Stift'') is a diocese within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Denmark. The Bishop of Copenhagen is currently Peter Skov-Jakobsen, who replaced Erik Normann Svendsen in 2009. The main cathedral of ...
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While Catholicism was present in the Faroes from 999 AD, after the
Danish Reformation, the last Catholic bishop in the islands was executed in 1538. In 1931 two young priests, E. G. Boekenoogen and Thomas King, undertook the task of restoring the Catholic presence in the Faroe Islands. In a rented house to the Franciscan sisters who came to the Faroes in 1931, a small church was consecrated on May 23 the same year. Along with the new school of St. Francis, the sisters had built the new St. Mary's Church was consecrated on June 1, 1933.
See also
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Catholic Church in the Faroe Islands
The Catholic Church in the Faroe Islands goes back to the year 999, when king Olav Tryggvason of Norway sent Sigmundur Brestisson on a mission to the islands with several priests. The islands became an independent diocese in 1111, but were offic ...
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Churches in the Roman Catholic Diocese of Copenhagen
Buildings and structures in Tórshavn
Roman Catholic churches completed in 1933
Churches in Tórshavn
Christian organizations established in 1933
20th-century Roman Catholic church buildings