The Bishop of Greenland (Danish: Biskop af Grønland) is a diocesan bishop of the Church of Denmark, and the leader of the Church of Greenland, which is...
3 KB (246 words) - 15:39, 22 October 2024
church in Greenland under the leadership of the Bishop of Greenland. Paneeraq Siegstad Munk became Bishop in 2020. The Church of Greenland is semi-independent...
10 KB (600 words) - 14:06, 14 December 2024
Lists of bishops of Greenland: Before and during the Reformation: Garðar, Greenland#Diocese of Garðar After the Reformation: Bishop of Greenland#List of Bishops...
359 bytes (35 words) - 06:30, 13 March 2022
Garðar was the seat of the bishop in the Norse settlements in Greenland. It is a Latin Catholic titular see, and was the first Catholic diocese established...
13 KB (1,330 words) - 20:55, 20 October 2024
demography of the population of Greenland including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...
27 KB (781 words) - 23:34, 19 November 2024
Nuuk (redirect from Capital of Greenland)
[ˈkʌtˌhɔˀp]) is the capital of and most populous city in Greenland, an autonomous territory in the Kingdom of Denmark. Nuuk is the seat of government and the territory's...
55 KB (4,607 words) - 01:46, 25 December 2024
of Greenland, consisting of the Diocese of Greenland is the official Lutheran church in Greenland under the leadership of the Bishop of Greenland, currently...
11 KB (1,324 words) - 16:25, 27 September 2024
Paneeraq Siegstad Munk (category 21st-century Danish Lutheran bishops)
(born 30 January 1977) is the current Bishop of Greenland for the Evangelical Lutheran Church. She was elected as bishop in 2020, and officially sworn in the...
5 KB (421 words) - 01:23, 10 September 2024
Archbishop Adalbert had ordained the first bishop Ísleifur Gissurarson for Iceland and also for Greenland is sound. Some accounts are derivative because...
64 KB (9,027 words) - 05:54, 25 December 2024
The history of Greenland is a history of life under extreme Arctic conditions: currently, an ice sheet covers about eighty percent of the island, restricting...
76 KB (9,325 words) - 03:31, 29 November 2024
Sofie Petersen (redirect from Bishop Sofie Petersen)
Greenlandic Lutheran bishop. She was Bishop of Greenland from 1995 to 2020. She was born on 23 November 1955 in Maniitsoq, Greenland. She studied theology...
5 KB (279 words) - 01:18, 10 September 2024
Norwegian sagas and historical works mention Greenland's economy, the bishops of Gardar, and the collection of tithes. A chapter in the Konungs skuggsjá...
175 KB (16,588 words) - 01:19, 26 December 2024
missionary, reported that on a voyage to Godthåb on the western coast of Greenland he observed: a most terrible creature, resembling nothing they saw before...
14 KB (1,459 words) - 02:20, 3 December 2024
Nuuk Cathedral (category Churches in the Diocese of Greenland)
Cathedral of Greenland. The first bishop of Greenland in 616 years was Kristian Mørk who was ordained in 1994, the previous bishop of Greenland was Álfur...
5 KB (476 words) - 08:12, 23 October 2024
Hans Egede (redirect from Apostle of Greenland)
missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the...
17 KB (1,936 words) - 01:42, 25 December 2024
Erik Gnupsson (category Norse settlements in Greenland)
centuries), may have been a bishop of Greenland. Very little is known about him. Some considered him as the first bishop of America, residing at Garðar...
2 KB (191 words) - 18:15, 11 November 2024
Kristian Mørch (category 20th-century indigenous people of the Americas)
Greenland's first bishop in 1993 after the restoration of the Diocese of Greenland. He is also considered as the mastermind behind the formation of the...
5 KB (383 words) - 21:16, 14 July 2024
Pedersen, Canadian politician, born in Greenland Bishop Sofie Petersen (b. 1955), Lutheran Bishop of Greenland Minik Wallace (ca. 1890–1918), boy treated...
1 KB (118 words) - 09:21, 17 February 2023
Sea serpent (section Greenland in 1734)
and surveyor of Greenland, gave an 18th-century description of a sea serpent witnessed by his party. In his journal he wrote: On the 6th of July, 1734,...
23 KB (2,495 words) - 10:38, 11 December 2024
churches in the Americas, and after much effort the people of Greenland received a bishop. The church thrived with the Norse colony which saw its peak...
15 KB (1,595 words) - 09:02, 28 November 2024
Erik the Red's Land (redirect from Eastern Greenland Case)
becoming known as the "Apostle of Greenland" and he was appointed Bishop of Greenland. He founded the current capital of Greenland, Nuuk (formerly Godthaab)...
11 KB (1,088 words) - 01:35, 29 October 2024
Western Settlement (redirect from Western Settlement (Greenland))
was sent to Greenland in 1341 to serve as superintendent of the bishop's seat at Gardar in the Eastern Settlement. After the death of Bishop Árni in 1347...
5 KB (546 words) - 09:13, 9 November 2024
becomes the first Bishop of Greenland. Ottokar III of Styria, Margrave (d. 1164) Possible date – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine, queen consort...
24 KB (2,454 words) - 07:04, 24 November 2024
Grœnlendinga þáttr (II) (category Norse settlements in Greenland)
Greenland from Norway to be Bishop of Greenland. Around this time, a Norwegian merchant named Arnbjörn sets off for Greenland, but is wrecked and his ship...
2 KB (225 words) - 16:09, 1 July 2023
Flateyjarbók manuscript. The Saga of the Greenlanders starts with Erik the Red, who leaves Norway and colonizes Greenland. It then relates six expeditions...
30 KB (4,172 words) - 00:10, 19 August 2024
Resensannáll (category Medieval history of Iceland)
AM 424 4°. Its notable content includes a mention of the search for Erik Gnupsson, bishop of Greenland, from known territory to Vinland (now known as Newfoundland...
1 KB (168 words) - 06:28, 13 September 2024
Garðar Cathedral Ruins (category Cathedrals in Greenland)
foundation can be seen. The cathedral was founded by Greenland's first bishop Arnaldur in 1126, built of red sandstone quarried from a neighbouring hillside...
6 KB (610 words) - 04:05, 23 October 2024
Greenlanders (category Greenland)
Greenlandic people, are the people of the Danish Realm of the autonomous territory of Greenland. As of 2024, Greenland's population stands at 55,840 and...
52 KB (5,012 words) - 04:27, 13 December 2024
Maniitsoq (redirect from Sukkertoppen, Greenland)
western Greenland located in the Qeqqata municipality. With 2,534 inhabitants as of 2020[update], it is the sixth-largest town in Greenland. Archaeological...
15 KB (1,365 words) - 02:57, 12 October 2024
Paul Egede (category Lutheran missionaries in Greenland)
provost. In 1779, he was elevated to Bishop of Greenland and, in 1785, made a fellow of the Royal Norwegian Society of Sciences and Letters. Egede and a...
6 KB (653 words) - 18:37, 12 August 2024