{{Short description|none}} {{Infobox Christian denomination | name = Catholic Church in Norway | image = Saint Paul Church Bergen Norway 2009 1.JPG | imagewidth = | caption = [[Saint Paul Catholic Church, Bergen]] | main_classification = [[Catholic Church]] | orientation = [[Latin Church|Latin]] | founded_date = 934 AD | area = [[Norway]] | separations= [[Church of Norway]] }} {{Catholic Church by country}} The '''Catholic Church in Norway''' ({{langx|no|Den katolske kirke i Norge}}) is part of the worldwide [[Catholic Church]]. {{As of|May 2014}}, there were over 151,000 registered Catholics in Norway.<ref name=Tande>{{cite web|trans-title=Where are Catholics?|title=Hvor bor katolikkene?|url=http://www.katolsk.no/nyheter/2014/06/hvor-bor-katolikkene|date=2 June 2014|publisher=Diocese of Oslo|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no|last=Tande|first=Claes}}</ref> It is claimed <!-- by whom? -->there are many Catholics who are not registered with their personal identification number and who are not reported by the local church; the full number may be as high as 230,000, 70% of whom were born abroad.<ref name=Hatlem>{{cite news|first=Bjørn Arild|last=Hatlem|url=http://www.dagen.no/Nyheter/Innenriks/tabid/248/Default.aspx?ModuleId=70003&articleView=true|title=Kolossal katolsk kyrkjevekst|trans-title=Colossal Catholic Church Growth|date=14 December 2010|work=[[Dagen (Norwegian newspaper)|Dagen]]|access-date=24 August 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131219060539/http://www.dagen.no/Nyheter/Innenriks/tabid/248/Default.aspx?ModuleId=70003&articleView=true|archive-date=19 December 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=probably>{{cite journal|url=http://www.vl.no/troogkirke/trolig-200-000-katolikker-i-norge|title=Trolig 200.000 katolikker i Norge|trans-title=Probably 200,000 Catholics in Norway|date=31 July 2012|journal=[[Vårt Land (Norwegian newspaper)|Vårt Land]]|access-date=24 August 2015}}{{Dead link|date=February 2026 |bot=InternetArchiveBot }}</ref> That constitutes about 5% of the population, making Norway the most Catholic country in Nordic Europe.
However, in early 2015, the Bishop of Oslo was charged with fraud for reporting to the government as many as 65,000 names of people claimed as members of the church who had not actually signed up. As the government gives a subsidy to religious organizations according to the number of members, the diocese was ordered to repay the government.<ref name=cathfraud>{{cite news|last1=Gaffey|first1=Conor|title=Catholic Church accused of defrauding Norway of €5.7m|url=http://europe.newsweek.com/catholic-church-accused-defrauding-norway-5-7m-329692|access-date=4 July 2015|work=[[Newsweek]]|date=2 July 2015}}</ref> The government reports for January 2015 that there were 95,655 registered Catholics, down from the 140,109 reported for January 2014.<ref name="stat-2015">{{cite web|title=Members of Christian communities outside the Church of Norway. Per 1 January|url=http://www.ssb.no/en/kultur-og-fritid/statistikker/trosamf/aar/2015-11-25?fane=tabell&sort=nummer&tabell=245518|website=Statistics Norway|publisher=Government of Norway|access-date=18 July 2016|date=25 November 2015}}</ref>
==Structure== The Catholic Church is the second largest religious community in Norway by number of registered members. The country is divided into three Church districts – the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo|Diocese of Oslo]] and the [[Territorial Prelate|prelatures]] of [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim|Trondheim]] and [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tromsø|Tromsø]],<ref>{{cite web |title=Organization |url=https://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon |website=Catholic Church in Norway |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> whose bishops participate in the [[Scandinavian Bishops Conference|Nordic Bishops Conference]]. The country is further divided into 38 parishes and three chapel districts.<ref>{{cite web |title=Catholic Parishes in Norway |url=https://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/norge/menigheter |website=Catholic Church in Norway}}</ref>
Four religious orders have returned to Norway: the [[Cistercians]], [[Dominican Order|Dominicans]], the [[Poor Clares]], and the [[Trappistines]]. In 2007,<ref name=Munkeby>{{cite web|url=http://munkeby-herberge.no/english|title=Welcome|publisher=Munkeby Herberge|access-date=24 August 2015|archive-date=22 December 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151222051405/http://munkeby-herberge.no/english/|url-status=dead}}</ref> monks from the [[Cîteaux Abbey|Abbey of Cîteaux]] dedicated a new monastery at Frol, near [[Levanger (town)|Levanger]] in [[Nord-Trøndelag]], naming it [[Munkeby Abbey|Munkeby Mariakloster]]. Trappistine nuns, likewise, bought land near the ruins of a pre-Reformation monastery on the island of [[Tautra]] in the [[Trondheimsfjord]], moved to the site, and built a new cloister, workplace, guesthouse, and chapel, calling the new monastery [[Tautra Abbey|Tautra Mariakloster]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Arctic Contemplatives|journal=[[America (Jesuit magazine)|America]]|url=http://americamagazine.org/issue/727/3/current-comment|page=4|date=1 March 2010|volume=202|number=6|access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> In addition to these four, 17 other orders are also working in the country,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/norge/ordener|title=Ordenssamfunn i Norge|trans-title=Religious Communities in Norway|publisher=Diocese of Oslo|date=8 May 2015|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no}}</ref> for instance the Sisters of St. [[Francis Xavier]] (''Franciskussøstre''), which is a unique order as it was founded in Norway in 1901.<ref name=Stensvold>{{cite web|first=Anne|last=Stensvold|url=http://snl.no/Franciskussøstre|work=[[Store norske leksikon]]|title=Franciskussøstre|date=14 February 2009|access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> The [[Benedictines]], who had a monastery on the island of [[Selja, Selje|Selja]] in the Medieval ages, were asked to return to Norway.<ref>{{cite news|first=Torill|last=Myren|url=http://www.smp.no/nyheter/soere/article509874.ece|title=Nytt kloster på Selja|trans-title=New Monastery at Selja|date=19 September 2012|work=[[Sunnmørsposten]]|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no|archive-date=24 September 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924103416/http://www.smp.no/nyheter/soere/article509874.ece|url-status=dead}}</ref>
There are few Catholic welfare institutions in Norway today. There are no Catholic hospitals or orphanages, but the Catholic Church operates primary and secondary schools in Oslo, [[Arendal (town)|Arendal]] and [[Bergen (city)|Bergen]], and [[Bodø (town)|Bodø]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Map of all Catholic churches, monasteries, places of mass, offices and residences in Norway |url=https://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/kart |website=Catholic Church in Norway |access-date=17 July 2023}}</ref> The [[Sisters of Saint Elizabeth]] operated St. Elizabeth's home for elderly in Oslo, until it was completely destroyed by fire in December 2014.<ref name=Stoltenberg>{{cite news|title=Én omkommet i brann i Oslo|trans-title=One killed in fire in Oslo|url=http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/n-omkommet-i-brann-i-Oslo-7815380.html|work=[[Aftenposten]]|first1=Øyvind|last1=Nordli|first2=Per Annar|last2=Holm|first3=Kristin|last3=Stoltenberg|location=Oslo|date=16 December 2014|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no}}</ref> ''[[Fransiskushjelpen]]'' (St. Francis Aid), a charity established in 1956 and run by [[Franciscan]]s, remains active;<ref name=hjelpen>{{cite web|title=Om Fransiskushjelpen|trans-title=About Fransiskushjelpen| url=http://www.fransiskus.no|publisher=Fransiskushjelpen| access-date=2015-08-24}}</ref> [[Caritas Norway]] is a Catholic international relief and development organisation.
==Origin== {{disputed section|date=November 2017}} The Catholic Church in Norway is almost as old as the kingdom itself, dating from approximately A.D. 900,<ref name=KN>[https://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/www/about_en Katolsk website, ''The history of the Catholic Church in Norway'']</ref> with the first [[Christians|Christian]] monarchs, [[Haakon I of Norway|Haakon I]] from 934. The country is considered to have officially converted upon the death of the king [[Olaf II of Norway|St. Olav]] at the [[Battle of Stiklestad]] in 1030.{{CN|date=May 2024}} The subsequent Christianisation took several hundred years.
Largely the work of [[Anglo-Saxons|Anglo-Saxon]] missionaries, the Norwegian Church has been considered the only daughter of English Catholicism. Cardinal [[Nicholas Breakspear]], later Pope Adrian IV, established a church province in 1153, the [[Archdiocese of Nidaros]] ([[Trondheim (city)|Trondheim]]).<ref name=KN />
==Reformation to 1843== {{See also|Anti-Catholicism in Norway}} {{more citations needed section|date=September 2016}} The [[Lutheranism#Spread into northern Europe|Lutheran]] [[Reformation in Denmark–Norway and Holstein|Reformation in Norway]] lasted from 1526 to 1537. Catholic Church property and the personal property of Catholic priests were confiscated by the Crown. Catholic priests were exiled and imprisoned unless they submitted to conversion to the [[Christian III of Denmark|Danish king]]'s [[Lutheranism|faith]]. Bishop Jon Arason of Holar, executed in 1550, was the last Catholic bishop of Iceland (until the establishment of the [[Diocese of Reykjavik]] in 1923). The [[Ancient Diocese of Hamar|Bishop of Hamar]] from 1513 to 1537, [[Mogens Lauritssøn]], was imprisoned until his death in 1542.<ref name=Bang>{{cite book|author-link=Anton Christian Bang|first=Anton Christian|last=Bang|title=Den Norske kirkes historie|trans-title=The History of the Norwegian Church|location=Copenhagen|publisher=Gyldendalske Boghandel Nordisk Forlag|year=1912|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IdcwAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA322|page=322}}</ref><ref name=Willson>{{cite book|first=Thomas Benjamin|last=Willson|title=History of the Church and State in Norway: from the Tenth to the Sixteenth Century|location=[[Westminster]]|publisher=Archibald Constable & Co. Ltd.|year=1903|url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_u6IXAAAAYAAJ|page=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_u6IXAAAAYAAJ/page/n371 347]}}</ref>
Many traditions from the Catholic Middle Ages continued for centuries more. In the late 18th century and into the 19th century, a strict and puritan interpretation of the Lutheran faith, inspired by the preacher [[Hans Nielsen Hauge]], spread through Norway, and popular religious practices turned more purely Lutheran. The Catholic Church ''[[Per se (terminology)|per se]]'', however, was not allowed to operate in Norway between 1537 and 1843, and throughout most of this period, Catholic priests faced execution.{{citation needed|date=September 2016}} In 1582, the scattered Catholics in Norway and elsewhere in Northern Europe were placed under the jurisdiction of a [[papal nuncio]] in [[Cologne]], however, with threatening punishment Catholic pastoring could not materialise. In the late 16th century, a few incidents of [[Crypto-Christianity|crypto]]-Catholicism occurred within the Lutheran [[Church of Norway]]. However, these were isolated incidents.{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
The [[Congregation for the Evangelization of Peoples|Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith]], on its establishment in 1622, took charge of the vast Northern European missionary field, which – at its third session – it divided among the [[nuncio]] of [[Brussels]] (for the Catholics in Denmark and Norway), the [[Apostolic Nuncio to Cologne|nuncio at Cologne]] (much of Northern Germany) and the [[Apostolic Nuncio to Poland|nuncio to Poland]] (Finland, Mecklenburg, and Sweden).{{citation needed|date=September 2016}}
In 1688, Norway became part of the [[Vicariate Apostolic of the Northern Missions|Apostolic Vicariate of the Nordic Missions]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}} The [[Archdiocese of Paderborn|Paderborn bishops]] functioned as administrators of the apostolic [[Vicar#Roman Catholic|vicariate]]. [[Christiania, Norway|Christiania]] ([[Oslo]]) had an illegal but tolerated Catholic congregation in the 1790s. In 1834, the Catholic missions in Norway became part of the [[Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden]], seated in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. In 1843, the Norwegian Parliament passed a religious tolerance act providing for limited religious freedom and allowing for legal non-Lutheran public religious services for the first time since the [[Protestant Reformation|Reformation]].{{citation needed|date=August 2016}}
==Since legalisation in 1843== The first parish after the Reformation was established in the capital in 1843; a few years later Catholic places of worship were opened in [[Alta (town)|Alta]] ([[Finnmark]]), Tromsø and Bergen.<ref>{{cite web|title=katolsk.no|url=http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/www/about_en|website=Den katolske kirke|access-date=19 September 2017|date=31 March 2006}}</ref> Whereas Norway north of the polar circle became the [[Apostolic Prefecture of the North Pole]] in 1855,<ref>{{cite journal|title=Rebuilding the archdiocese of Nidaros: Etienne Djunkowsky and the North Pole Mission, c. 1855–1870 |author= Andrew G. Newby |journal= The Innes Review |date= 2010 |volume= 61 |pages= 52–75 |url=https://www.euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/inr.2010.0003?journalCode=inr |publisher=[[Edinburgh University Press]]|doi= 10.3366/inr.2010.0003 |url-access= subscription }}</ref> the rest of Norway stayed with the Swedish vicariate. When a new Norwegian Catholic missionary jurisdiction was established, it was not at any of the ancient [[episcopal see]]s but a [[mission “sui iuris”]] on 7 August 1868, created out of parts of North Pole prefecture and the Norwegian part of the Swedish vicariate. On 17 August 1869, the mission became the [[Apostolic Prefecture]] of Norway. On 11 March 1892, the Apostolic Prefecture of Norway was promoted to [[Apostolic Vicariate of Norway]], with an altered name as the ''Apostolic Vicariate of Norway and [[Spitsbergen]]'' between 1 June 1913 and 15 December 1925. In 1897, the [[Constitution of Norway|constitutional]] ban on [[religious order]]s was lifted, which in time led to the establishment of several communities and monasteries.
On 10 April 1931, the Apostolic Vicariate of Norway was divided into three separate Catholic jurisdictions: *Southern Norway: Apostolic Vicariate of Oslo (extant 1931–1953), upgraded to the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo|Diocese of Oslo]] in 1953 *Central Norway: Its jurisdiction (called ''Missionary District of Central Norway'', 1931–1935; ''Apostolic Prefecture of Central Norway'', 1935–1953; ''Apostolic Vicariate of Central Norway'', 1953–1979) became the [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim|Prelature of Trondheim]] in 1979. *Norway north of the polar circle: Its jurisdiction (called ''Missionary District of Northern Norway'', 1931–1944; ''Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Norway'', 1944–1955; ''Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Norway'', 1955–1979) now forms the [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tromsø|Prelature of Tromsø]].
==Sigrid Undset==
{{more citations needed section|date=July 2023}} In November 1924 the well-known Norwegian writer [[Sigrid Undset#Catholicism|Sigrid Undset]] was received into the Catholic Church after thorough instruction from the Catholic priest in her local parish. She was 42 years old. She subsequently became a [[Third Order of Saint Dominic|lay Dominican]]. It was the culmination of a long process whereby Undset – raised as a nominal Lutheran and for many years an agnostic – had experienced a crisis of faith due to the horrors of the First World War combined with the failure of her marriage. At the time of her move towards Catholicism she also wrote two series of historical novels, ''[[Kristin Lavransdatter]]'' and ''[[The Master of Hestviken]]'', which take place in medieval times when Norway had been a Catholic country,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0173.html |title="Sigrid Undset: Catholic Viking" |access-date=2019-06-06 |archive-date=2016-03-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303185354/http://catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0173.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> as well as having studied [[Old Norse]] manuscripts and medieval [[chronicle]]s and visited and examined medieval churches and [[monasteries]], both at home and abroad. In Norway, Undset's conversion to Catholicism was not only considered sensational; it was scandalous. At the time, there were very few practicing Catholics in Norway, which was an almost exclusively Lutheran country. [[Anti-Catholicism]] was widespread not only among the Lutheran clergy, but through large sections of the population. Likewise, there was just as much anti-Catholic scorn among the Norwegian [[intelligentsia]],{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} many of whom were adherents of socialism and [[Communist Party of Norway|communism]].{{citation needed|date=July 2023}} The attacks against her faith and character were quite vicious at times, with the result that Undset's literary gifts were aroused in response. For many years, she participated in the public debate, going out of her way to defend the Catholic Church. In response, she was swiftly dubbed "The Mistress of Bjerkebæk" and "The Catholic Lady".
==Catholic immigrants== The Catholic Church remained very much a minority church of a few thousand people up to the decades following [[World War II]]. However, with increased immigration from the 1960s onwards, the Catholic Church grew quickly: from 6,000 in 1966 to 40,000 in 1996 and to over 200,000 in 2013.<ref>{{cite news|first=Jan|last=Bentz|url=http://www.zenit.org/en/articles/the-church-in-norway-explosive-growth-long-distances|title=The Church in Norway: Explosive Growth, Long Distances|agency=[[Zenit News Agency]]|date=26 February 2013}}</ref>
At first, the immigrants came from [[Germany]], the [[Netherlands]], and [[France]]. Immigration from [[Chile]], the [[Philippines]], and from a wide range of other countries began in the 1970s. Among the largest groups are [[Norwegian Vietnamese|Vietnamese]] and [[Tamils]]. This development has further increased after 2008 with a high number of economic migrants from Poland and [[Lithuania]].<ref name=Slettholm>{{cite news|first=Andreas|last=Slettholm|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/Na-er-det-flere-katolikker-enn-muslimer-i-Norge-7033287.html#.UtlwzKXXdb1|title=Nå er det flere katolikker enn muslimer i Norge|trans-title=There are now more Catholics than Muslims in Norway|date=3 December 2012|work=Aftenposten|access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> [[Polish people|Poles]], who number an estimated 120,000 as of 2006,<ref name=Moe>{{cite news|title=120.000 polakker i Norge|trans-title=120,000 Poles in Norway|language=no|url=http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1443964.ece|date=3 September 2006|work=Afterposten|access-date=24 August 2015|last=Moe|first=Ingeborg|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141020185311/http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article1443964.ece|archive-date=20 October 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> are currently the largest group of Catholics in Norway. {{As of|2015}}, besides members of the [[Latin Church]], there were [[Chaldean Catholics]] with their own priest.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://trondheim.katolsk.no/en/nyheter/translate-to-engelsk-enkeltvisning-nyhet/the-chaldaic-group-in-norway-gets-it-own-priest | title=The Chaldaic group in Norway gets it own priest | date=8 September 2015 }}</ref>
==Members== {{Disputed|what=table|small=left|date=July 2020|reason=Membership inflation fraud conviction 2010–2014 period. All figures after 2009 need to be reviewed.}} {| class="wikitable" |- ! Year ! Members<ref name=Statistics>{{cite web|url=http://www.ssb.no/trosamf_en|title=Religious communities and other philosophical communities|publisher=[[Statistics Norway]]|date=18 November 2014|access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> ! Percent |- | 1971 | 9,366 | 0.24% |- | 1980 | 13,923 | 0.34% |- | 1990 | 26,580 | 0.62% |- | 2000 | 42,598 | 0.98% |- | 2010 | 66,972 | 1.37% |- | 2011 | 83,018 | 1.68% |- | 2012 | 102,286 | 2.04% |- | 2018 | 157,220 | 2.96% |}
{| class="wikitable" |- ! Municipality ! Catholics (2003)<ref name="katolsk.no">{{cite web|url=http://www.katolsk.no/organisasjon/norge/kommuner|title=Kommuner med minst 50 katolikker pr. 31.12.2004|trans-title=Municipalities with more than 50 Catholics on 31 December 2004|date=24 November 2005|publisher=Diocese of Oslo|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no}}</ref> ! Percent ! Catholics (2004)<ref name="katolsk.no"/> ! Percent ! Catholics (2013)<ref name="osloby.no">{{cite news|first=Liv Berti|last=Tessem|url=http://www.osloby.no/nyheter/Hoytid-for-sorg_-hap-og-glede-7158618.html#.Utldy6XXdb1|title=Høytid for sorg, håp og glede|trans-title=Holy Days for Sorrow, Hope and Joy|date=29 March 2013| work=Afterposten|access-date=24 August 2015|language=no}}</ref> ! Percent |- | [[Image:Oslo komm.svg|20px]] [[Oslo Municipality]] | 14,908 | 2.8% | 13,300 | 2.5% | 34,000 | 5.4% |- | [[Image:Bergen våpen.svg|20px]] [[Bergen Municipality]] | 3,873 | 1.6% | 4,044 | 1.7% | 13,000 | 4,8% |- | [[Image:Bærum komm.svg|20px]] [[Bærum Municipality]] | 1,816 | 1.7% | 1,666 | 1.6% | ___ |- | [[Image:Stavanger komm.svg|20px]] [[Stavanger Municipality]] | 1,720 | 1.5% | 1,568 | 1.3% | 10,000 <ref name="St. Svithun menighet runder 10 000">{{cite web|url=http://stavanger.katolsk.no/bulletin.html|title=St. Svithun runder 10.000 medlemmer|trans-title=St. Swithin Rounds 10,000 members|publisher=Nyheter St. Svithun Menighet|access-date=17 January 2014|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130925160018/http://stavanger.katolsk.no/bulletin.html|archive-date=25 September 2013}}</ref> | 7.7% |- | [[Image:Coat of arms of Trondheim.svg|20px]] [[Trondheim Municipality]] | 1,434 | 0.9% | 1,416 | 0.9% | 5,000 <ref name="NRK">{{cite news|first=Juliet|last=Landrø|url=http://www.nrk.no/trondelag/ma-rive-blekens-hovedverk-1.8283426|title=Må rive Blekens hovedverk|trans-title=Raze Bleken's Masterpiece|date=16 August 2012|work=[[NRK]] News|access-date=24 August 2015}}</ref> | 2.7% |- | [[Image:Kristiansand komm.svg|20px]] [[Kristiansand Municipality]] | 1,251 | 1.6% | 1,150 | 1.5% | ___ |}
=== Membership inflation fraud conviction === In 2015, it was discovered that the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo|Catholic Diocese of Oslo]] had stated too high membership numbers in the period 2010 to 2014, and therefore received too many state subsidies. The diocese applied for and received state support on behalf of all the Catholic congregations in Norway, because it kept the centralised membership register for all the country's Catholic congregations. It emerged that employees in the Diocese of Oslo had "used the telephone directory to select names that appear Catholic", for example by appearing to be Polish or Spanish. The diocesan staff searched for the social security numbers of these people, entered them in the membership register and demanded state support for these alleged members.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/kraftig-kutt-i-stotte-til-katolikker-1.12766410 |title=Kraftig kutt i støtte til katolikker|author=Anette Holth Hanse |work=NRK |date=25 January 2016 |access-date=28 June 2019 |language=no}}</ref> The [[County governor (Norway)|County Governor]] of Oslo and later also the [[Ministry of Culture (Norway)|Ministry of Culture]] then demanded that the diocese return the funds that they had been wrongfully paid. The case ended in court, and both the district court on 20 November 2017 and the Court of Appeal on 13 March 2019 upheld the State's decision that the money, almost 40.6 million [[Norwegian krone]]r, should be repaid by the Catholic Church in Norway. Additionally, a 2 million kroner fine for gross fraud and just over 300,000 kroner for the state's legal costs for the appeal trial had to be paid by the Diocese of Oslo.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nrk.no/ostlandssendingen/oslo-katolske-bispedomme-tapte-ankesaken-mot-staten-1.14472714|title=Oslo katolske bispedømme tapte ankesaken mot staten |author=Kaja Staude Mikalsen |work=NRK |date=14 March 2019 |access-date=27 July 2020|language=no}}</ref>
==List of Catholic parishes in Norway== {{col-begin}}{{col-2}} ;In the [[Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo|Diocese of Oslo]]: *[[St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo|Saint Olaf]] Cathedral, ([[Oslo]]) from 1843 *[[Saint Paul Catholic Church, Bergen|Saint Paul]], ([[Bergen (city)|Bergen]]) from 1858 *Saint Peter ([[Halden (town)|Halden]]) from 1870 *Saint Bridget ([[Fredrikstad (town)|Fredrikstad]]) from 1878 *[[Vår Frue Church (Porsgrunn)|Our Lady of Good Counsel]] ([[Porsgrunn (town)|Porsgrunn]]) from 1889 *[[St. Ansgar's Church|Saint Ansgar]] ([[Kristiansand (town)|Kristiansand]]) from 1890 *[[St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery|Saint Hallvard]], ([[Oslo]]) from 1890 *[[St Svithun's Church, Stavanger|Saint Svithun]], ([[Stavanger (city)|Stavanger]]) from 1898 *Saint Lawrence ([[Drammen (town)|Drammen]]) from 1899 *Saint Francis Xavier ([[Arendal (town)|Arendal]]) from 1911 *Saint Torfinn ([[Hamar]]) from 1924 *Saint Mary ([[Stabekk]], [[Bærum Municipality|Bærum]]) from 1926 *Saint Joseph ([[Haugesund (town)|Haugesund]]) from 1926 *Saint Olaf ([[Tønsberg]]) from 1929 *Saint Teresa ([[Hønefoss]]) from 1935 *Saint Magnus ([[Lillestrøm (town)|Lillestrøm]]) from 1952 *St. Mary's Church ([[Lillehammer (town)|Lillehammer]]) from 1956 *Saint Michael ([[Moss (town)|Moss]]) from 1989 *Saint Mary ([[Askim (town)|Askim]]) from 1992 *Saint Francis ([[Larvik (town)|Larvik]])from 1993 *Saint Thomas ([[Valdres]]), ''chapeldistrict'' from 2007 *Saint Gudmund ([[Jessheim]]) from 2007 *Saint Clare ([[Kongsvinger (town)|Kongsvinger]]) from 2007 *[[Saint John the Baptist's Church, Sandefjord|Saint John the Baptist]] ([[Sandefjord (town)|Sandefjord]]) from 2010 *Saint John the Evangelist ([[Oslo]]) from 2013 *Saint Elisabeth ([[Bærum]]) from 2018 {{col-2}} ;In the [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Tromsø|Prelature of Tromsø]]: *Our Lady ([[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]]) from 1859 (Cathedral) *Saint Michael ([[Hammerfest (town)|Hammerfest]], including Saint Joseph, [[Alta (town)|Alta]] (1855)) from 1874 *Saint Sunniva ([[Harstad (town)|Harstad]]) from 1893 *Holy Family ([[Stamsund]]) from 1935 *Saint Augustine of Nidaros [St. Eystein] ([[Bodø (town)|Bodø]]) from 1951 *Christ the King ([[Narvik (town)|Narvik]]) from 1988 *Holy Spirit ([[Mosjøen]]) from 2003
;In the [[Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim|Prelature of Trondheim]]: * Sacred Heart ([[Trondheim (city)|Trondheim]]) from 1872, merged with Saint Olaf in 1929 *Saint Olaf ([[Trondheim (city)|Trondheim]]) from 1902 (Cathedral) *Saint Sunniva ([[Molde (town)|Molde]]) from 1923 *Saint Augustine of Nidaros [St. Eystein] ([[Kristiansund (town)|Kristiansund]]) from 1934 *Our Lady ([[Ålesund (town)|Ålesund]]) from 1959 *Saint Torfinn ([[Levanger (town)|Levanger]]) from 1964 {{col-end}}
==Churches== <gallery> File:St. Olav domkirke, Oslo.jpg|[[St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo|Saint Olaf]]'s Cathedral, ([[Oslo]]) File:St. Paul Kirke 1.jpg|[[Saint Paul Catholic Church, Bergen|Saint Paul]]'s Church, [[Bergen (city)|Bergen]] File:St Peter kirke Halden.jpg|Saint Peter's Church, [[Halden (town)|Halden]] File:Fredrikstad StBirgittachurch01.JPG|Santa Bridget's Church, [[Fredrikstad (town)|Fredrikstad]] File:Vår Frue kirke.jpg|[[Vår Frue Church (Porsgrunn)|Our Lady's Church]], [[Porsgrunn (town)|Porsgrunn]] File:StHallvard1.JPG|[[St. Hallvard's Church and Monastery]], Oslo File:St Ansgar Church 01.jpg|[[St. Ansgar's Church|Saint Ansgar's Church]], [[Kristiansand (town)|Kristiansand]] File:St svithun katolske kirke stavanger.png|[[St Svithun's Church, Stavanger|Saint Svithun's Church]], [[Stavanger (city)|Stavanger]] File:St Laurentius Drammen.jpg|Saint Lawrence's Church, [[Drammen (town)|Drammen]] File:Stjohannes3.jpg|Saint John the Baptist's Church, [[Sandefjord (town)|Sandefjord]] File:Bredtvedt church.jpg|Saint John the Evangelist's Church, [[Oslo]] File:St. F. kirke 3.jpg|Saint Francis Xavier's Church, [[Arendal (town)|Arendal]] File:St Torfinns kirke Hamar.jpg|Saint Thorfinn's Church, [[Hamar]] File:Katolsk-kirke-Molde.jpg|Santa Sunniva`s Church, [[Molde (town)|Molde]] File:Catolic church of Haugesund.jpg|Saint Joseph's Church, [[Haugesund (town)|Haugesund]] File:StTeresiaKatolskeKirke07.jpg|Santa Teresa's Church, [[Hønefoss]] File:Moss StMikaelchurch01.JPG|Saint Michael's Church, [[Moss (town)|Moss]] File:St. Gudmund kirke (2).jpg|Saint Gudmund's Church, [[Jessheim]] File:St Eysteins kirke.jpg|Saint Eystein`s Church, [[Bodø (town)|Bodø]] File:St Olav domkirke 2016 03.jpg|Saint Olaf's Cathedral, [[Trondheim (city)|Trondheim]] File:Our Lady Catholic Church in Tromsø2.jpg|Our Lady's Cathedral, [[Tromsø (city)|Tromsø]] </gallery>
===See also=== *[[Religion in Norway]] *[[Christianity in Norway]] *[[Eastern Orthodoxy in Norway]] *[[Protestantism in Norway]] *[[List of Christian monasteries in Norway]] *[[List of Catholic dioceses in Norway]] (Previous and present)
==References== {{Reflist}}
==Sources== *[https://www.katolsk.no/ Official website of the Catholic Church of Norway], katolsk.no; accessed 21 September 2016. {{in lang|no}} *{{cite book|last=Kjelstrup|first=Karl|title=Norvegia catholica: moderkirkens gjenreisning i Norge: et tilbakeblikk i anledning av 100-årsminnet for opprettelsen av St. Olavs menighet i Oslo, 1843–1943|year=1943|publisher=Oslo apostolic vicariate|location=Oslo|language=no|page=418}} *{{cite book|last=Brodersen|first=Øistein Grieve|title=Norge-Rom, 1153-1953: Jubileumsskrift, 800 år siden opprettelsen av Den norske kirkeprovins|year=1943|location= Trondheim|language=no|page=49}}
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