Heine Havreki

Húsavík on the island Sandoy in the Faroe Islands, the site where Heini was shipwrecked

Heine Johnsøn Havreki (1514–1576) or Heine the shipwrecked was a Norwegian born Lutheran pastor who helped introduce the Protestant Reformation on the Faroe Islands. [1]

Heine Johnsøn was reportedly born in Bergen, Norway the son of Jon Haraldson, an Icelandic Roman Catholic minister. While Havreki was studying in Bergen, he and some other students were travelling to Iceland but were caught up in bad weather and shipwrecked in the Faroe islands. They were taken care of by a local woman, Herborg of Húsavík, with whom he subsequently became married. Together they had a son Jógvan Heinason in 1541, and daughter Herborg Heinadottir in 1542. [2]

In 1534, he served as deputy to Ámundur Olavsson, the last Roman Catholic bishop of the Diocese of the Faroe Islands. Ámundur Olavsson held his office, based at Kirkjubøur, until he was forced to yield his see and title in 1538. Following the Protestant Reformation, Heine was one of first Lutheran priest in the Faroe islands. Heine was consecrated on Ólavsøka in 1541 when the church on the island of Eysturoy became Protestant. [3][4]

Following the death of Heine's wife Herborg, he traveled back to Norway. There around 1544, he married Gyri Arnbjørnsdatter. Together they had a son Magnus Heinason born about 1545. In 1566, Heine served at a church on Radøy in the Nordhordland district in Hordaland where he later died.

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  1. ↑ Heine Havreki (memim.com)
  2. ↑ The 'Old Vicarage' Museum (The Antiques Society & Museum in Nes Municipalty)
  3. ↑ (Norwegian genealogical-website) of ancestors of Heine Havreki]
  4. ↑ Faroese genealogy site about the descendants]

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