Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo
The diocese of Oslo (Latin: Dioecesis Osloensis, Norwegian Oslo katolske bispedømme ) is the jurisdiction of the Catholic Church for southern Norway based in Oslo. It covers the southern 13 Fylker the country.
From a Catholic perspective, it is the re-establishment or continuation of the old Catholic Diocese of Oslo, which existed from the early Middle Ages to the Reformation. From the perspective of the Norwegian state, however, the Reformed ( Lutheran ) diocese of Oslo is the direct continuation of the former Catholic diocese.
History
The first Catholic unity in Norway after the Reformation was established in 1843 Community of St. Olav in Oslo. She was under the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden. On August 7, 1868 Norway mission area ( areas with the Swedish Vicariate and the dissolved North Pole mission) and on August 17, 1869 the Breve Ecclesiae Universae an Apostolic Prefecture. On April 11, 1892 this was raised to the Apostolic Vicariate. Between 1913 and 1925, was the name of the Vicariate Norway and Spitsbergen. 1931, the Vatican chose a tripartite division. The Apostolic Vicariate of Norway was Oslo and the split on 10 April 1931 in the Southern Vicariate Apostolic in the independent mission areas of central and northern Norway. On June 29, 1953 Oslo was with the Bull Faustum profecto by Pope Pius XII. raised to the bishopric.
Construction
On 31 December 2010 belonged to the diocese of 69,973 Catholics ( equivalent to 1.9 % of the population ) in 23 parishes. In addition to the diocese include the School of St. Sunniva in Oslo, St. Olav's bookstore, the conference and training Haus Maria Holm in Spydeberg and St. Olav -Verlag.