10 Facts About Lewi Pethrus

Lewi Pethrus held manual jobs from the age of ten, being apprenticed to a shoe factory in 1899.

Lewi Pethrus started speaking in tongues, believed by Pentecostals to be evidence of having received the baptism of the Holy Spirit after a series of meetings in Lillestrand.

Lewi Pethrus claimed that the experience happened to him spontaneously and that he did not understand at the time what was happening to him.

Lewi Pethrus was later to say that his training was detrimental to his faith.

Lewi Pethrus joined the Pentecostal movement in 1907 after meeting the Norwegian Pentecostal minister Thomas Ball Barratt in Oslo.

Lewi Pethrus became pastor of the Seventh Baptist Church in Stockholm in 1910 and of the Filadelfia Church in 1911.

Lewi Pethrus sponsored the founding of a high school in 1942 and Dagen, a daily newspaper, in 1945.

Lewi Pethrus continued preaching as an itinerant preacher, and established the Lewi Pethrus Trust for Philanthropic Endeavours in 1959.

Lewi Pethrus had moved more into the sphere of politics since the 1940s, after denouncing it wholly during the early years of his ministry.

Lewi Pethrus's autobiography, was published in 1976.