Kingo's hymnal, officially titled ''Dend Forordnede Ny Kirke-Psalme-Bog'' (The Prescribed New Church Hymnal), is a hymnal that was approved by royal decree for use in all churches in Denmark–Norway in 1699. The hymnal contains 86 hymns by the bishop of Odense,

Thomas Kingo Thomas Hansen Kingo (15 December 1634 – 14 October 1703 Odense) was a Danish bishop, poet and hymn-writer born at Slangerup, near Copenhagen. His work marked the high point of Danish baroque poetry. His father was a weaver of modest mean ...

.Tveit, Sigvald. 2003. Singing in Conservative Protestant Congregations: Hymns and Their Performance Practice as a Component of Identity. In: Cornelia Kück & Hermann Kurzke (eds.), ''Kirchenlied und nationale Identität: internationale und interkulturelle Beiträge'', pp. 183–198. Tübingen: Francke, p. 185. It also bears Kingo's name on the title page because the selection was made based on a hymnal that Kingo had edited ten years earlier. Kingo's hymnal was in use in a large part of

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

until the 1870s, when it was replaced by '' Landstads kirkesalmebog'' (Landstad's Church Hymnal) and Andreas Hauge's '' Psalmebog for Kirke og Hus'' (Hymnal for Church and Home). The hymnal is arranged according to the liturgical year so that suitable hymns are designated for every holiday during the year. The hymnal contains

collect The collect ( ) is a short general prayer of a particular structure used in Christian liturgy. Collects appear in the liturgies of Catholic, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox, Anglican, Methodist, Lutheran, and Presbyterian churches, among othe ...

s, epistles, and

gospel Gospel originally meant the Christian message (" the gospel"), but in the 2nd century it came to be used also for the books in which the message was set out. In this sense a gospel can be defined as a loose-knit, episodic narrative of the words a ...

readings for each holiday, and it also contains church prayers and other prayers.

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