Hólar

Hólar ( Hólar í Hjaltadal ) is a small village with 109 inhabitants ( 2010) in northern Iceland in the region Norðurland vestra. He was for many centuries ( 1106-1801 ) as the second, founded by Bishop Jón Ögmundsson seat next Skálholt an important place in Iceland. Today there is a college for horses and fish farming as well as for tourism.

The parish Hólar with the cathedral in the town Skagafjordur is Protestant since the Reformation. On Hólar the title of a Lutheran and a Catholic Weihbistums Titularbistums relates.

History

The Catholic Diocese of Hólar was founded in 1106 and comprised northern Iceland, its first bishop Jón Ögmundsson ( Ögmundsson ), and it existed until 1550, ie until the Reformation. Fame the last Catholic bishop, Jón Arason, who vigorously opposed the Reformation and was captured after a long, partly military conflict, from people of the Danish king and executed 1550 in Skálholt.

After an interval of two years, it became Lutheran in 1552, his last Protestant bishop was 1789-1798 Sigurdur Stefansson. The Protestant bishopric was then merged with that of Skálholt to a Protestant gesamtisländischen diocese, the former diocese of the South had been administered in Skálholt since 1784 because of the greater risk of earthquakes in Skálholt of Reykjavík.

1923 a new Catholic diocese was established in Reykjavík.

Church in Hólar

University Hólaskóli