Ernst Oddvar Baasland
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Ernst Oddvar Baasland (born April 3, 1945 in Kristiansand, Norway) is bishop in the diocese of Stavanger in the Church of Norway since 1998.
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Baasland graduated from the Misjonsskolen (currently Misjonshøgskolen, School of Mission and Theology) and MF Norwegian School of Theology with a cand.theol.-degree in 1970. He became dr.theol in 1981, and graduated from the Practical Theological Seminary at MF in 1984.
He first served in the army as an Army Chaplain (1971-72) in Bodø before returning to MF Norwegian School of Theology where he became a research fellow 1972-75, and had different positions as a lecturer before finished his doctorate in the New Testament in 1981 and becoming a professor in the New Testament in 1984. He stayed in this position until becoming ordained as a priest and consecrated a bishop in the diocese of Stavanger in 1998.
