Åfjord Church
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Åfjord Church is a parish church
in the municipality of Åfjord
in Sør-Trøndelag
county, Norway
. The church is located in the municipal center of Årnes
, just east of the Åfjorden and west of the lake Stordalsvatnet
.
The church is part of the Fosen deanery and the Diocese of Nidaros
. It was built in 1879, and was consecrated on 9 October 1879 by Bishop Andreas Grimelund
.
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in the municipality of Åfjord
Åfjord
Åfjord is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnes. Other villages in the municipality include Revsnes, Harsvika, and By...
in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
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county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The church is located in the municipal center of Årnes
Å, Åfjord
Å is a village in the municipality of Åfjord in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village is also called Årnes or Å i Åfjord or just Åfjord. It is the administrative center of the municipality. The village is located at the end of the Åfjorden, west of the village of By. The lake...
, just east of the Åfjorden and west of the lake Stordalsvatnet
Stordalsvatnet
Stordalsvatnet is a lake in the municipality of Åfjord in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The lake is located on the Stordalselva river which flows into the Åfjorden. The lake lies between the villages of By and Årnes ....
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The church is part of the Fosen deanery and the Diocese of Nidaros
Diocese of Nidaros
Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag counties and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. The diocese is divided into 12 deaneries . Finn Wagle was the bishop from 1991 to 2008...
. It was built in 1879, and was consecrated on 9 October 1879 by Bishop Andreas Grimelund
Andreas Grimelund
Andreas Grimelund was a Norwegian bishop.The son of a farmer in Aker, he graduated as cand.theol. in 1835. He became residing chaplain in Nannestad in 1844 and Ullensaker in 1847. He was a teacher at the theological seminary in Christiania starting in 1851, and was appointed vicar in Gerpen in 1856...
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