Herborg Oline Finnset (born 28 March 1961 in

Sørreisa Sørreisa ( sme, Ráisavuona suohkan) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Sørreisa. Other villages include Grunnreisa, Skøelva, and Smørsgård. The municip ...

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) is a Norwegian prelate of the

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

who is the

Bishop of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

as of 2018.

Biography

Finnset was pastor of

Strinda Strinda is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality encompassed the eastern part of what is now the municipality of Trondheim south and ea ...

parish in the

Diocese of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

, and later became Dean of Tromsø from 2005 till 2017. In 2014, she was also nominated as a candidate for the bishopric of

Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland Nord-Hålogaland ( no, Nord-Hålogaland bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers the Church of Norway churches in Troms og Finnmark county as well as in the territory of Svalbard. The diocese is seated in the city of Tromsø ...

however she lost the majority of votes from the Church Council by seven to eight, and

Olav Øygard Olav Øygard (born 29 July 1956) is a Norwegian Lutheran prelate of the Church of Norway who serves as the Bishop of Nord-Hålogaland since 2014. Nord-Hålogaland covers Troms and Finnmark countries, and also Svalbard. Øygard is a self-descr ...

was elected bishop. Finnset graduated from the Faculty of Law in Oslo, and was ordained priest in Oslo Cathedral in 1988. Prior to her arrival in Strinda, she had worked in

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as priest in charge of the church in

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, and later in Lenvik. Finnset is one of the forces behind Tromsø Church Music Festival. She was unanimously elected bishop of Nidaros by the Church Council in 2017, and was consecrated and installed as bishop on 10 September 2017 by the Primate of the Church of Norway Bishop-Preses

Helga Haugland Byfuglien Helga Haugland Byfuglien (born 22 June 1950Biskop som programvert
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Nidaros Cathedral Nidaros Cathedral ( no, Nidarosdomen / Nidaros Domkirke) is a Church of Norway cathedral located in the city of Trondheim in Trøndelag county. It is built over the burial site of Olav II of Norway, King Olav II (c. 995–1030, reigned 1015–102 ...

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References

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