Finn Wagle

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Finn Wagle (born June 19, 1941 in Oslo, Norway) is the current bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros in the Church of Norway. He is also the current preses (primas inter pares, “first among equals”) and thus presiding in the Bishop’s Conference in the Church of Norway.

[edit] Biography

Wagle enrolled as a student at MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1962, and graduated in 1968 (cand.theol.-degree) and the following year he graduated from the Practical Theological Seminary at MF. He studied in 1966/67 in Berlin with a Willy Brandt Scholarship.

He then served in the army as an Army Chaplain (1970) before working as a vicar in Sørreisa in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland from 1970-75. Between the years 1975-81 he worked as an assistant professor at the Practical Theological Seminary at MF Norwegian School of Theology, while at the same time working for the Association of Ministers in the Church of Norway. From 1981 he worked as director of the institute Church Educational Center (IKO). And in 1989 he became the dean of the Nidaros Cathedral.

In 1991 he became the bishop of Nidaros.

[edit] See also

• Church of Norway