Per Juvkam, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Norwegian bishop (1907-2003)
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Place of Birth: Sør-Aurdal, Oppland, Norway
About Per Juvkam
- Per Juvkam (1907–2003) was a Norwegian Lutheran Bishop.
- He was born in 1907 in Sør-Aurdal in Oppland county, Norway.
- He served as Bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin from 1961 to 1977.Juvkam began his career as a priest in Vestre Toten in 1938.
- He served there until 1950 when he took a new job as the head parish priest for the parish of Vestre Slidre.
- In 1957, he took a new job as a priest in the Sinsen parish in Oslo.
- After 3 years on that job, in 1961 he was named the Bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin, based in the city of Bergen.
- He retired in 1971.Juvkam did some writing in the 1970s and 1980s during his retirement.
- Among his publications are a collection of sermons called Høgtidsdagar i Bjørgvin from 1977 and a book about the church in Norway Folkekirken – visjon og virkelighet from 1980.
- He also worked on the translation of the Bible into Nynorsk.Juvkam died in Oslo on 22 February 2003 at the age of 95.
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