Lars Roar Langslet (5 March 1936,

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– 18 January 2016) was the Norwegian Minister of Education and Church Affairs (culture and science affairs only, not church affairs) in 1981, and Minister of Culture and Science from 1982 until 1986 for the

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. As Norway has a Lutheran State Church, his ministry had to be divided, since Langslet was a converted Catholic, and hence could not be in charge of the affairs of the state church. He was a member of the

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. In 1984 he received the

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. He was appointed a

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in 1997. He was one of the editors of ''

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'', a quarterly magazine published by

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20th-century Norwegian politicians 1936 births 2016 deaths People from Nes, Buskerud Norwegian Roman Catholics Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism Former Lutherans Conservative Party (Norway) politicians Ministers of Culture of Norway Members of the Storting Members of the Norwegian Academy Norwegian magazine editors {{Norway-politician-1930s-stub