Fredrik Grønningsæter, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Bishop of the Church of Norway
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Place of Birth: Stranda, Møre og Romsdal, Norway
About Fredrik Grønningsæter
- Fredrik Grønningsæter (26 May 1923 – 28 April 2016) was a Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland from 1982 until 1992. Grønningsæter was born in the municipality of Stranda in Sunnmøre, Norway on 26 May 1923.
- He was the son of Fredrik and Katharina (née Ottesen) Grønningsæter.
- His great-grandfather on his mother's side was Carl Peter Parelius Essendrop, who was also a bishop in the Church of Norway.
- He received his Cand.theol.
- degree from the MF Norwegian School of Theology in Oslo in 1951.
- He was ordained on 21 October 1951 by the Bishop Johannes Smemo. Grønningsæter worked as an assistant pastor at the Nidaros Cathedral from 1957 until 1962.
- He was then the priest of Gimsøy in Lofoten from 1962 until 1968.
- He worked as a priest in Oslo from 1968 until 1972 when he became the resident chaplain at the Oslo Cathedral.
- He served at the Oslo Cathedral from 1972 until 1982.
- In 1982, he was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland, a post he held until he resigned in 1992.
- He died in 2016.
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