Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup (26 October 1853 – 23 October 1913) was a Norwegian bishop.
Schjelderup was born in Ullensaker, the son of Peter Vilhelm Schjelderup and Dorothea Marie Lysholm. He had two brothers and one sister.[1]
He married Henriette Nicoline Hassel. Their son Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Jr. became a bishop as well, while their youngest son Harald Krabbe Schjelderup became a professor of psychology.[2]
Schjelderup enrolled as a student in 1870, and graduated as cand.theol. in 1875. He worked as a chaplain in Moss from 1876 and Christianssand from 1880. He then became vicar in Dybvaag 1890, and dean in Oddernes in 1903. From 1908 to his death he served as bishop of the Diocese of Christianssand.[3]
He was a Knight of the Royal Norwegian Order of St. Olav.[3]
| Preceded by Gunvald Thorkildsen |
Bishop of Christianssand 1908–1913 |
Succeeded by Bernt Støylen |