The biggest change since the reformation – the Future in the North

the Changes in the constitution in 2012 and virkesomhetsoverdragelsen from 1. January 2017 change the terms for The Norwegian church. As a consequence of grunnlovsendringene is The Norwegian church, now an independent denomination and the entity of the Council as the top governing body.

A clear distinction

Now is no longer proster, priests and bishops embets or government officials. Consistory and bispedømmerådene is also no longer the central government agencies. The council has taken over much of the authority that previously lay in the central government, and is the top representative body for the new run by The Norwegian church.

We will also in the years ahead to fill the task as Norway’s national church – open to all – a place where you can get rooms for their faith, doubt, and wonder, ” says the head of the Consistory, Kristin Gunleiksrud Raaum in a press release.

the Many responsibilities

in The last century, the state has transferred more and new responsibilities to bodies of The Norwegian church. In 1920, we got the parish council, followed by the introduction of bispedømmeråd in 1933. In 1934, Bispemøtet formalized and, in 1984, was the Council established. New kirkelov which, among other things, regulates the relationship between the municipality and the wards, came in 1996 and the ecclesiastical fellesrådene was created, writes The Norwegian church, in a press release.

Reformasjonsjubileum

In 2017, it is 500 years since the kirkereformatoren Martin Luther formulated his 95 theses against the avlatshandelen. It was the beginning of profound changes in the european cultural, religious and political landscape. Reformasjonsjubileet shall be marked in many ways in the churches in the course of 2017.

the church, Luther criticized was not the relationship between the state and the church a debattema. In the Norwegian work with the changes in church-state-relationship has two hovedhensyn figured prominently in the past 50 years; consideration of the independence of The Norwegian church and the grounds of freedom of religion and equality between religious and spiritual communities. These considerations have a connection with the protection of religious freedom in human rights.