Bernt Ivar Eidsvig (former order name Markus Bernt Eidsvig) (born September 12, 1953 at Rjukan) is the Catholic Bishop of Oslo and functioning apostolic administrator of Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim. He was appointed on 11 July 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, which was announced on 29 July, the feast of St. Olav. Eidsvig took office in St. Olav Catholic Cathedral on 22 July 2005.
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Eidsvig born and raised in Rjukan. Before his conversion to the Catholic Church 20 December 1977, he studied theology at the University of Oslo in terms of ministry in the Norwegian Church. He took a theological degree there with the church's historic special task of Church and Society in "The Barsetshire novels' main works of the English writer Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). He also worked ten years as a freelancer in the Morning magazine.
Eidsvig became nationally known when he became the 14th July 1976 was arrested by the KGB in Moscow when he was a courier for the exiled Russian organization NTS. Eidsvig came to deliver leaflets, renal medicine and a handbook of "rebellion" to a Soviet Russian in Moscow who had requested such a shipment, but he was in the meantime been betrayed and arrested. KGB waited in his apartment when Eidsvig arrived. He had to sit in 101 days Lefortovofengslet in Moscow before the Soviet authorities released him after Foreign Minister Knut Joy Lund and Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli effort to get him free.
The arrest attracted considerable attention both in Norway and other countries, but many reactions were negative. Great extent was the information that was presented influenced by Soviet disinformation. It was claimed that Eidsvig was led to an action that might lead to the arrest and that he did was stupid and ridiculous. Among other things, falsely claimed that he should have handed out fliers on the street. This presentation characterized among other things, Aftenposten's coverage of the case and let the KGB prison in the clip from the Norwegian press towards Eidsvig to weaken his resistance.
Bernt I. Eidsvig became lisensiatstudier at Heythrop College in London ordained as a diocesan priest of Oslo Catholic Diocese of St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo on 20 June 1982 by the then Catholic Bishop of Oslo, John Willem Gran. The next four years he served as chaplain at St. Paul in Bergen , where Eidsvig on 1 January 1986 was named pastor after Father Wilhelm Hertmann OFM. It was under his leadership that the Catholic school St. Paul Bergen was moved, expanded and newly built directly behind St. Paul's Church.
During this time, Pastor Eidsvig also teaches at St. Paul School. He was also active in Riksmål Association.
Before his appointment as parish priest he served in periods of feltprest corps in the Norwegian defense, partly Evjemoen north of Kristiansand and medications recruitment company in Bømoen by Voss. In Oslo Catholic Diocese , he served on the Priest Council 1983-1990, the Consultors 1987-1990, and the Pastoral Council 1988-1991.
In the summer of 1991 left the Eidsvig Norway and came in with the Canons of Stift Klosterneuburg in Austria, just outside Vienna. He was wearing track suit on 27 august 1991 and received the name Mark. He received his ordensprofess on 30 August 1995. He then worked from 1997 to 2003 as pastor of St. Leopold Church in Klosterneuburg, and from 1996 as a novice master in the monastery.
Under his leadership of the novitiate has Stift Klosterneuburg had a more international flavor than before: Besides the Austrians , he accompanied into the order of candidates from the United States, Germany, Norway and Vietnam (Vietnamese refugees / immigrants to Norway).
He has also been kapittelråd and chapter secretary founded.
Markus Bernt Eidsvig was appointed Bishop of Oslo on 11 July 2005, and his appointment was announced on 29 July. Eidsvig is first Canons of Klosterneuburg who has been bishop since 1913, when the monastery Pastor Friedrich Gustav Piffl was appointed the first archbishop of Vienna.
Bishop ceremony and inauguration in office took place respectively in Trinity Church (Lutheran, seconded by the Norwegian Church for the occasion) and St. Olav Cathedral in Oslo, both the 22 October 2005. Bishop ceremony was broadcast on the Internet ( Web TV ) via www.katolsk.no. Eidsvig was the third Norwegian-born Catholic bishop in Norway after the Reformation, after Olaf Offer Dahl (consecrated 6 April 1930, died 7 October the same year) and John Willem Gran (consecrated March 24, 1963, died March 20, 2008).
Eidsvig coat of arms as a bishop is divided into four fields. 1. and 4 field (upper heraldic right and lower left quadrant), Oslo Catholic bishop sentenced weapons (Olavsøksene, two axes, gold on red background), while the other two have half the weapons of Klosterneuburg (T-cross upside down, silver on red background) combined with Aaron's rod (gold on blue background). Klosterneuburg weapons are divided according to the rule that only the abbot (Dean) can use all the weapons, while the bishops who belonged to the monastery uses half combined with another emblem. The shield is crowned with a green prelathatt (galero) with six green tassels on each side of a bishop's cross. (This cross is mentioned in the Codex Iuris Canonici (CIC) 1917, canon 274, § 6, and should not be confused with the usual processional cross.)
The motto is Laborie NON Honoria, "work, not honor." It's the same motto as cardinal Piffl, Archbishop of Vienna, elected in 1913, it is the beginning of a motto in its entirety reads "work, not honor, to my effort to be devoted." This is a reproduction (not a verbatim quote) of this sentiment expressed in the hl. Augustine's writings.
101 days in the KGB, Oslo 1977 The book provides a detailed description of prison conditions and the KGB people's interrogation and after research methods. Eidsvig also comes close on the television interview he had to contribute before its release, and at the press conference here at home afterwards.
Pilgrimage to Lourdes: A Catholic services for soldiers and officers, (ed. with Roar Haldorsen), Oslo: Norwegian Young Catholic Association, 1982
"The Catholic Church of return" in the Catholic Church in Norway (ed. John W. Gran, Erik Gunnar , Lars Roar Langslet ), Oslo 1993
This was the main contribution in the history of works that were released to the 150-year anniversary of the Catholic Church's return to Norway in 1843.
He has also been a staff member of the Catholic journal St. Olav.