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The Church of Norway ( Bokmål: Den norske kirke, Nynorsk: Den norske kyrkja, Northern Sami: Norgga girku, Southern Sami: Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. [2] .
Find out about baptism, beliefs, cooperation and congregations in the Church of Norway, the largest community of faith in Norway. Learn more about the church's history, traditions and activities on its official website.
Learn about the largest community of faith in Norway, its traditions, beliefs and cooperation. Find your local congregation and get information about baptism, rituals and holidays.
The Church of Norway is an Evangelical-Lutheran church that share an Apostolic, Christian faith, and the most commonly used Christian creeds from the early church. Church of Norway has two sacraments, Baptism and Eucharist.
Church of Norway, established, state-supported Lutheran church in Norway, which changed from the Roman Catholic faith during the 16th-century Protestant Reformation. Norway is divided into dioceses, each headed by a bishop, with the bishop of Oslo as the primate of the bishops.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Church of Norway has represented the main expression of religious belief in Norway for a thousand years. It has belonged to the Evangelical Lutheran branch of the Christian church since the 16th century, and has been a state church since then until 2012.
Learn about the origins, development and current status of the Church of Norway, a state church with Lutheran tradition and a member of the World Council of Churches. Find out how the church relates to the state, the society and other Christian communities.
