Hólar (Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈhouːlar̥]; also Hólar í Hjaltadal [ˈhouːlar i ˈçal̥taˌtaːl̥]) is a small community in the Skagafjörður district of northern...

Hólar University is located in Hólar, Iceland, an important historical centre of education. The university was the first post-secondary school in Hólar...

Holar can refer to: Hólar, a small community in Iceland Holar, Kashmir, a town in Azad Kashmir Holar (people), India This disambiguation page lists articles...

Holar is a small Marathi community or caste found in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh, all states in India. The caste traditionally...

Hólar Cathedral (Icelandic: Hóladómkirkja) is a Church of Iceland cathedral church located in Hólar, Iceland. The church is the official church of the...

The Diocese of Hólar is a suffragan diocese of the Church of Iceland. The Bishop of Hólar is one of two suffragan bishops to the Bishop of Iceland. The...

Holar (or Hollar) is a city in the Sehnsa tehsil of Kotli District, of Azad Kashmir, Pakistan. It has a crossing on the Jhelum river, which used to be...

also known as John of Holar and Jon Helgi Ogmundarson, was an Icelandic Catholic bishop. In 1106, the second Icelandic diocese, Hólar, was created in the...

Karls Helgudóttir in 2024. The church has two suffragan sees, Skálholt and Hólar, whose bishops are suffragans or assistant bishops to the Bishop of Iceland;...

Hvanneyri Public Bifröst University 1918 Bifröst Private ~ 1,100 Hólar University College 1106 Hólar Public Iceland University of the Arts 1998 Reykjavík Private...

Lutheranism on all his subjects. Jón Arason, the last Catholic bishop of Hólar, was beheaded in 1550 along with two of his sons. The country subsequently...

of Hólar, he was sent on two missions to Norway. When Gottskálk died in 1520, Jón Arason was chosen as his successor in the episcopal see of Hólar, but...

dioceses were established in the island, with their seats at Skálholt and Hólar which were subordinated to foreign archbishops. Landowners had a preeminent...

about 1068), Faroe Diocese (1047), Garðar, Greenland (1126), Hamar (1151), Hólar, Iceland (1105), Orkney (1070; suffragan till 1472), Oslo (1073), Skálholt...

1056. Until 1785, it was one of Iceland's two episcopal sees, along with Hólar, making it a cultural and political center. Iceland's first official school...

([Reykjavík]: Bókaútgáfan Hólar, 2013), pp. 9, 24-25, 43. Kristjana Guðbrandsdóttir, Von: Saga Amal Tamimi ([Reykjavík]: Bókaútgáfan Hólar, 2013), pp. 15, 17...

son of Þorlákur Skúlason, the bishop of Hólar, and Kristín Gísladóttir. He grew up in Hólar, graduating from Hólar College in 1649, after which he studied...

later the school, in Hólar í Hjaltadal is in the middle of the valley and leaves quite an impression. The mountain overlooking Hólar is called Hólabyrða...

been buried with its author, the Bishop Gottskálk grimmi Nikulásson of Hólar. The subject of the book was to learn to master magic to such a degree as...

in the Icelandic commonwealth, culminating in his election as bishop of Hólar (the northern one of the two Icelandic bishop seats) in 1203. He served...

dealing with bishops of Iceland's two medieval dioceses of Skálholt and Hólar.[citation needed] Hungrvaka (short biographies of the first five bishops...

Kankayya Garmatang Garoda, Garo Halleer Halsar, Haslar, Hulasvar, Halasvar Holar, Valhar Holaya, Holer Koli, Kori Kotwal (in Bhind, Dhar, Dewas, Guna, Gwalior...

Gilsson, was also a bishop of Hólar. Thorgeir was the father of Yngvild who was the mother of Brand Sæmundarsson, bishop of Hólar. The sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen...

Reformation ended with the execution of Jón Arason, Catholic bishop of Hólar, and his two sons, in 1550. Christian III became king of Denmark in 1536...

people as little as [she] could." It was recorded in New York City and Hólar in the north of Iceland. 2009 saw the release of her second solo album,...

bishop of Hólar from 1552 until his death. He was the first Lutheran bishop of Holar. Ólafur's father was Hjalti Arnkelsson, a carpenter in Hólar. His date...

written by Norwegian author Jo Nesbø. The name is derived from Old Norse Hólar, the plural form of hóll, meaning "round and isolated hill." Harry's surname...

Guðmundsdóttir (born 1956) is an Icelandic prelate who served as the Bishop of Hólar from 2012 to 2022. Solveig Lára completed a diploma in theology in 1983...

dialect as per the 1901 census. Matthew A. Sherring describes the Golars and Holars as a pastoral tribe from the Godavari banks established in the districts...

1552 German translation. Guðbrandur Þorláksson, the Protestant bishop at Hólar, published the first complete translation, the Guðbrandsbiblía, in 1584...