The Diocese of Møre ( no, Møre bispedømme) is a diocese in the

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which geographically consists of

Møre og Romsdal Møre og Romsdal (; en, Møre and Romsdal) is a county in the northernmost part of Western Norway. It borders the counties of Trøndelag, Innlandet, and Vestland. The county administration is located in the town of Molde, while Ålesund is the ...

county, Norway. Its bishop is seated at the

Molde Cathedral Molde Cathedral ( no, Molde domkirke) is a cathedral of the Church of Norway in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the town of Molde. It is the church for the ''Molde domkirke'' parish as well as the seat o ...

which is located in the county administrative center of

Molde Molde () is a town and municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Peninsula, surrounding the Fannefjord and Moldefjord. The administrative centre of the m ...

. , the Bishop of Møre is

Ingeborg Midttømme Ingeborg Synnøve Midttømme (born 1961) is a Norwegian Lutheran bishop for the Diocese of Møre in the Church of Norway. Midttømme was born in Oslo, Norway on 20 November 1961. She has been the Bishop since 2008. She was elected as the first f ...

. The diocese was established on 18 September 1983, when the district of

Sunnmøre Sunnmøre (, en, South- Møre) is the southernmost traditional district of the western Norwegian county of Møre og Romsdal. Its main city is Ålesund. The region comprises the municipalities ( no, kommuner) of Giske, Hareid, Herøy, Norddal ...

was removed from the

Diocese of Bjørgvin The Diocese of Bjørgvin ( no, Bjørgvin bispedømme) is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway. It includes all of the churches located in the county of Vestland in Western Norway. The cathedral city is Bergen, Norway's second ...

to the south, and the Romsdal and Nordmøre districts were removed from the

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to the north. The three districts (which correspond to Møre og Romsdal county) were used to form the new diocese.

Structure

The Diocese of Møre is divided into seven deaneries ( no, Prosti). Each one corresponds to several municipalities in the diocese. Each municipality is further divided into one or more parishes which each contain one or more congregations. See each municipality below for lists of churches and parishes within them.

Bishops

The following people have led the diocese as bishop since the founding of the diocese: * Since 2008:

* 1991–2008:

Odd Bondevik Odd Bondevik (20 June 1941 – 6 September 2014) was a Norwegian theologian who was the Bishop of the Diocese of Møre in the Church of Norway from 17 November 1991 until retirement in 2008. He also served as Preses of the Bishop's Conference o ...

* 1983–1991:

Ole Nordhaug Ole Nordhaug (3 February 1925 – 19 September 2021) was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop. He was the first Bishop of the Diocese of Møre from its creation in 1983 until his retirement in 1991. Career Nordhaug graduated in 1951 with his Cand.theol. ...

Name

The name of the diocese (''Møre'') is the result of a compromise between county's three districts.

, with almost half of the population, would accept that the bishop be located in the geographical center of the diocese—

in Romsdal—if that region's name (Romsdal) be excluded from the name of the diocese. The name of the corresponding county was ''Møre

fylke Norway is divided into 11 administrative regions, called counties (singular no, fylke, plural nb, fylker; nn, fylke from Old Norse: ''fylki'' from the word "folk", sme, fylka, sma, fylhke, smj, fylkka, fkv, fylkki) which until 1918 ...

'' during the period from 1919–1935, and ''Romsdal

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'' from 1660–1919. However, the name is old ( Old Norse: ''Mœrr''), and it is probably derived from the word ''marr'' which means " ocean" or "sea". The meaning is then "coastal district". (A coastal district in

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has the same name:

Möre Möre is one of the original small lands of Småland, a historical province (''landskap'') in southern Sweden. It corresponds to the south-eastern part of modern Kalmar County. Möre was divided into two hundreds: Möre Northern Hundred and Mö ...

.) The ambiguous designation ''møring''—"person from Møre"—is used strictly about people from Nordmøre (and less frequently for people from Sunnmøre), excluding the people from Romsdal (while, consequently, ''romsdaling''—"person from Romsdal"— is used about the latter).

References

External links

Official website of the diocese
{{DEFAULTSORT:Diocese Of More Møre og Romsdal

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Christian organizations established in 1983 Organisations based in Molde 1983 establishments in Norway