The St. Olav's Cathedral ( no, St. Olav domkirke) is the church home to the
Prelature of Trondheim, belonging to the
Catholic Church in Norway
The Catholic Church in Norway is part of the worldwide Catholic Church, under the spiritual leadership of the Pope, the Curia in Rome and the Scandinavian Bishops Conference.
There were, as of May 2014, over 151,000 registered Catholics in Norway ...
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It is built on the foundations of a cathedral designed by architect Per Kartvedt and was consecrated in 1973 to serve as the new church of the Vicariate of Trondheim.
In 1979 it was elevated from Rome to the status of cathedral, while the vicarage was converted into a prelature.
Bishop Bernt Ivar Eidsvig initiated a committee to plan a new cathedral in 2009 and the year after the architectural firm Eggen Arkitekter AS got the assignment. The previous church was demolished on 25 May 2014. The new church was finished in November 2016.
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Roman Catholic cathedrals in Norway
Churches in Trondheim
Roman Catholic churches completed in 2016
21st-century Roman Catholic church buildings
Trondheim
Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...