Sofie Petersen (born 1955) is a Greenlandic

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bishop. She was born on 23 November 1955 in

Maniitsoq Maniitsoq (), formerly Sukkertoppen, is a town in Maniitsoq Island, western Greenland located in the Qeqqata municipality. With 2,534 inhabitants , it is the sixth-largest town in Greenland. History Archaeological finds indicate that the are ...

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, Kingdom of Denmark. She studied

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and graduated from the

University of Copenhagen The University of Copenhagen ( da, Københavns Universitet, KU) is a prestigious public research university in Copenhagen, Denmark. Founded in 1479, the University of Copenhagen is the second-oldest university in Scandinavia after Uppsala Unive ...

in 1986. On 28 May 1995, at the age of 39, Petersen was ordained as the Bishop of Greenland in the

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. She was ordained at Hans Egede Church, the cathedral of Greenland in the presence of

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. She is the second

Inuit Inuit (; iu, ᐃᓄᐃᑦ 'the people', singular: Inuk, , dual: Inuuk, ) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic and subarctic regions of Greenland, Labrador, Quebec, Nunavut, the Northwest Territories ...

bishop and the second woman to become a bishop in the Danish Lutheran church. Petersen is an outspoken advocate for climate justice."Bells ring a wake-up call for climate justice."
''World Council of Churches.'' 14 December 2010 (retrieved 30 August 2010) She retired in December 2020.

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