Knut Ansgar Nelson

Knut Ansgar Nelson OSB ( born October 1, 1906 in Frederiksværk, Denmark, † 31 March 1990 in Newport (Rhode Iceland ), USA ) was Roman Catholic Bishop of Stockholm.

Life

Knut Nelson, as he was his real name, emigrated in 1925 to the United States and came after his conversion to the Roman Catholic Church in May 1931 in the Congregation of Benedictines. After he had in 1935, his religious vows he took the name Ansgar as a religious name and was ordained on May 22, 1937 Chaplain of the Benedictines. He was then a teacher at the seminary of the Benedictines and at the Portsmouth Abbey School.

On 12 July 1947 he was appointed titular bishop of Bilta and the same time rely on Koadjutorvikar of Sweden. In this role, he supported the incumbent Vicar Apostolic bishop Johann Evangelist Müller, whose successor he was to be later. The Apostolic Delegate to the United States Amleto Giovanni Cicognani and the co-consecrators Archbishop Francis Patrick Keough ( Providence, Rhode Iceland, USA ) and Bishop Johannes Theodor Suhr OSB ( Vicar Apostolic of Denmark) initiated him on September 8, 1947 Bishop.

After the restructuring of the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden to the diocese of Stockholm, he was appointed Coadjutor Bishop on June 29, 1953 at the officiating Bishop Müller. He succeeded Bishop Müller on October 1, 1957 the Bishopric of Stockholm. His age-appropriate retirement followed on July 2, 1962 with the simultaneous appointment as Titular Bishop of Dura. From 1962 to 1967 he was a chaplain in a Swiss nunnery. Then he went back to the Portsmouth Abbey in the United States and taught at the seminary and in the house of the Benedictine novices philosophy. He died at the age of 83 years on 31 March 1990, it was founded in 1969 at the Portsmouth Abbey School, "Bishop Ansgar Nelson OSB Memorial Fund " ( a scholarship Foundation) in memory.