Torbjørn Olsen (born November 10, 1953) is a Norwegian Catholic prelate who served as

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of the Territorial Prelature of Tromsø from 2006 to 2009. He holds a theology degree from the Norwegian Menighetsfakultetet granted in 1977, and he worked for about a decade as a priest in the Norwegian Church, including as a military chaplain. In 1989, he converted to

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. He took the diploma degree in

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at the John-Gutenberg Universität in

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in 1991 and was ordained a priest in Tromsø on September 8, 1991, by Bishop Gerhard Goebel. With his thesis "Die Natur des Militärordinariats", he became the first Norwegian in recent times to take a

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(Doctor in iure Canonico) on February 3, 1999, at the Pontifical University of Gregorian in

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. Olsen has worked in various functions in the Catholic Church in Norway and in 1998 became Vicar General of

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. In December 2003, he was appointed honorary chaplain to His Holiness with the title Monsignor.

Literature

*Die Natur des Militärordinariats, 1998, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot

External links

Msgr Olsen's biography at katolsk.no (in Norwegian)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Olsen, Torbjorn Converts to Roman Catholicism Converts to Roman Catholicism from Lutheranism Norwegian Roman Catholic priests 1953 births Living people