Tor Berger Jørgensen

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Tor Berger Jørgensen
photo:Kirkens informasjonstjeneste
Born	27th December 1945 Oslo
Occupation	priest, provost, bishop
Spouse	Anne Berger Jørgensen

Tor Berger Jørgensen (born 27th December 1945) is the bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland in the Church of Norway.

He was named as the new bishop on 17 November 2006 and took over from Øystein Ingar Larsen on 28 January 2007. Jørgensen had previously been the dean of Bodø Cathedral since 2000 and had for various periods been deputy for the bishop.

Jørgensen has a cand.theol. degree from the Misjonshøgskolen/MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1972. Jørgensen has worked for 15 years as a mission priest in Japan for the Norwegian Missionary Society; and after that was the general secretary of the same organisation from 1991 to 1999. In 2000 Jørgensen entered the debate on homosexuals in the church, and since then has been among the most liberal in the synod.^[who?] Jørgensen was also a candidate for bishop of the Diocese of Oslo in 2005, where Ole Christian Kvarme was elected.

A week before he became bishop, he gave an interview to Aftenposten stating that he supported a ritual in church for homosexuals to take part in a Civil union.^{[citation needed]}

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