Gjeble Pederssøn

Geble (also Gjeble ) Pedersson ( * ca 1490 Herøy (Nordland ); † March 9, 1557 in Bergen ) was a Norwegian clergyman. He became in 1537 the first Lutheran superintendent ( bishop) in the diocese of Bergen ( Bjørgvin ).

Life

After attending school in Trondheim and Bergen Pedersson studied in Alkmaar and lions. He was awarded his doctorate for master and returned to Bergen, where he first worked as a rector at the cathedral. In 1518 he was ordained a priest and taken to the cathedral chapter, shortly afterwards appointed pastor at St. Mary's Church. In 1523 he traveled to Rome to obtain the confirmation of the elected Bishop Olav Þorkelsson, and became Pope Adrian VI. determined to succeed him as Archdeacon. Over the following years, in which the first signs of the Reformation spread out in Bergen, there are few sources. According to Bishop Olav's death on May 23, 1535 Pedersson was elected by the chapter as his successor, but could not be confirmed. It was only when King Christian III. in the summer of 1536, after the victory in the Civil War had a free hand for the introduction of the Reformation in Denmark and Norway, Pedersson won with the support of the Governor Eske Bille whose confidence. He traveled in the summer of 1537 to Copenhagen, where he was ( according to other data already on 26 August ) launched on September 2, by royal decree of Johannes Bugenhagen as a Lutheran Superintendent of Bergen. ( Only in the 17th century took the superintendent in Denmark and Norway again the Bishop title. )

Pedersson remained until his death in that post until 1541 the only superintendent in Norway. He let get ready the dilapidated Franciscan monastery, and there he take the Bishopric, and made the church became a cathedral. Pedersson lived even further celibate, but sat down, inter alia, by visitations, for anchoring the Lutheran doctrine and church order in his diocese and other parts of Norway. The Cathedral School in Bergen, he made the Protestant Model School to attract young pastor. One of his proteges, Pedersson Absalon Beyer, later wrote his biography.

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