Agnes Margrétardóttir Sigurðardóttir (born 19 October 1954) is an Icelandic prelate who was the

Bishop of Iceland The following is a list of Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland, Evangelical Lutheran bishops of Iceland. The first bishop of Iceland was Geir Vídalín who took office in 1801. As of 2024, 15 people have held the office of Bishop of Iceland. Li ...

from 2012 to 2024. She is the first woman to be elected a Bishop of the

Church of Iceland The Church of Iceland (), officially the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland (), is the State religion, national church of Iceland. The church is Christian and professes the Lutheranism, Lutheran faith. It is a member of the Lutheran World ...

, which happened in 2012; she took office as such in the same year.

Biography

Agnes was born in

Ísafjörður Ísafjörður (pronounced , meaning ''ice fjord'', literally ''fjord of ices'') is a town in the northwest of Iceland. The oldest part of Ísafjörður with the town centre is located on a spit of sand, or ''eyri'', in Skutulsfjörður, a fjord ...

. She has the degree of Cand. theol.,

University of Iceland The University of Iceland ( ) is a public research university in Reykjavík, Iceland, and the country's oldest and largest institution of higher education. Founded in 1911, it has grown steadily from a small civil servants' school to a modern co ...

(1981). From 1999 and before her election, she served as the dean of the Western Fjords. Agnes is divorced and has three children. She has been active in Iceland's music life, playing the piano and organ and singing in choirs.

References

External links

Website ''Trúin og lífið''

First Icelandic woman Bishop, on Lögberg-Heimskringla - The Icelandic Community Newspaper
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