1. Arne Fjellbu was bishop of the Diocese of Nidaros from 1945 to 1960.
12 Facts About Arne Fjellbu
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Arne Fjellbu was born in Decorah, Iowa in the United States as a son of vicar Karl Anton Fjellbu and his wife Ellen Johanne Retvedt.
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Arne Fjellbu took his examen artium at Kristiansand Cathedral School in 1909.
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Arne Fjellbu then graduated from the Royal Frederick University with the cand.
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Arne Fjellbu was promoted to curate in 1927 and dean in 1937.
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Arne Fjellbu attributed the cohesion of the Church of Norway in its confrontation against Nazism to the campaign led by Frank Buchman and the Oxford Group in Norway from 1934 onwards.
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In December 1944, Arne Fjellbu was appointed Bishop of the liberated parts of Northern Norway by the Norwegian government-in-exile.
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Arne Fjellbu returned from the United Kingdom to Stockholm by plane on 1 May 1945, heading for Finnmark, but due to the events instead travelled to Trondheim by train, arriving on 9 May, and conducting a sermon in a crowded Nidaros Cathedral the following day.
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Arne Fjellbu was a co-founder of the World Council of Churches in 1948, and was a member of its executive committee in 1953.
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Arne Fjellbu wrote several books, and a Festschrift to him was issued on his seventieth birthday.
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Arne Fjellbu held honorary degrees from Lund University and the University of St Andrews, was a member of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters and an honorary member of the British and Foreign Bible Society, the International Mark Twain Society, and Pro Fide et Christianismo.
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Arne Fjellbu was appointed as a Commander With Star of the Royal Norwegian Order of St Olav in 1958, and as a Commander of the Danish Order of the Dannebrog.