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About Reidar Kobro
- Reidar Kobro (16 October 1911 – 4 November 2003) was a Norwegian priest. He was born in Mandal as a son of Reidar Kobro (1878–1966) og Emilie Knudsen (1886–1971).
- In 1937 he married Berit Mørland, a sister of Arnt J.
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- Mørland and daughter of Arnt J.
- Mørland. He took his secondary education at Kristiansand Cathedral School, and graduated from there in 1930.
- He enrolled as a student in the same year and graduated with the cand.theol.
- degree from the MF Norwegian School of Theology in 1935.
- He took the practical priest education in 1936 and was hired as an auxiliary priest in Ã…snes in the same year.
- From 1937 he was a secretary at the MF Norwegian School of Theology.
- During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he fled to Sweden.
- In 1943 he was hired as a priest for the Norwegian refugees there.
- He returned to Norway in 1945. In 1946 he was hired as a secretary in Oslo småkirkeforening.
- He was hired in the Norwegian Church Abroad in London in 1949, and doubled as a priest at the Norwegian embassy in London from 1952.
- He was then a curate in Nøtterøy from 1957 to 1965, vicar in Uranienborg, Oslo from 1965 to 1971 and diocesan dean in Oslo Cathedral from 1971 to 1981.
- From 1964 to 1968 he chaired the Norwegian Association of Clergy.
- He chaired the MF Norwegian School of Theology's board from 1968 to 1970, and Oslo småkirkeforening from 1972.
- He died in November 2003 and was buried in Vestre gravlund.
- The road Reidar Kobros vei in Oslo has been named after him.
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