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    Stavanger Cathedral (Norwegian: Stavanger domkirke) is Norway's oldest cathedral and the seat of the Bishop of Stavanger who leads the Diocese of Stavanger...
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    Located on the Stavanger Peninsula in southwest Norway, Stavanger counts its official founding year as 1125, the year the Stavanger Cathedral was completed...
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    of Stavanger in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Rogaland county. The diocese is based at the Stavanger Cathedral in the city of Stavanger in...
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    Stavanger Cathedral School (Norwegian: Stavanger katedralskole) is an upper secondary school in the city of Stavanger, Rogaland county, Norway. It is...
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    Swithun (category Burials at Winchester Cathedral)
    Lincoln, Worcester, Cheswardine, Shropshire and western Norway, where Stavanger Cathedral is dedicated to him. He is also commemorated at St Swithin's Lane...
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    known for the construction work of the Stavanger Cathedral. Even if the construction periode of the cathedral was about 1100 to 1150. Being in conflict...
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    Stavanger (Norwegian: Stavanger bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers all of Rogaland county in western Norway. The cathedral city...
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    Norway", and from 1280 ruled a large area around Oslo in Eastern Norway and Stavanger in the southwest, subordinate to King Eirik. The king's main residence...
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    Kristiansand Molde Cathedral in Molde Stavanger Cathedral in Stavanger Tønsberg Cathedral in Tønsberg Tromsø Cathedral in Tromsø Cathedrals of the Roman Catholic...
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    Breiavatnet (category Stavanger)
    centre of Stavanger, on the border of the boroughs of Storhaug and Eiganes og Våland. The Stavanger Cathedral, the City Park, and Stavanger Cathedral School...
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    father's death in 1280, ruled a large area around Oslo in Eastern Norway and Stavanger in the southwest, subordinate to King Eirik. Haakon succeeded to the royal...
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    Lillehammer, Grete, et al. (1995) Museoteket ved Arkeologisk museum i Stavanger: Rogalandsfunn fra istid til middelalder, p. 108 Hugh Tennent (1862)....
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    in Stavanger, Norway. The church is dedicated to St Swithun of Winchester. St Swithun is the Patron saint of Stavanger, and the Stavanger Cathedral of...
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    of the most notable artists from the Stavanger renaissance, well known for his works in the Stavanger Cathedral. When he moved to Norway, he first settled...
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    by Bishop Grimkell, and a few years later enshrined in Nidaros Cathedral. The cathedral with its shrine to St. Olav became the major Nordic place of pilgrimage...
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    afterwards Adrian IV. The legate installed Jon Birgerson, previously Bishop of Stavanger, as Archbishop of Nidaros. The bishops of Bergen (bishop about 1068),...
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    and most probably a Benedictine monk from Winchester Cathedral, was the first Bishop of Stavanger. With the money given him in 1128 by King Sigurd Jorsalefarer...
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  • Stavanger Renaissance (Stavangerrenessansen) is the name for the cultural period which peaked in the middle of the 17th century in the vicinity of Stavanger...
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    baroque, especially for his work in Stavanger Cathedral. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Cartilage Baroque. Stavanger Renaissance Auricular style Håvard...
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    some Baroque interior added early 18th century. The construction of Stavanger Cathedral began according to Romanesque style (around 1100), then later enlarged...
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  • Jon Guttormssøn (category Bishops of Stavanger)
    He administered considerable restorations of Stavanger Cathedral, and transformed the Stavanger Cathedral School into a school for Lutheran priests. In...
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  • Hallvards Cathedral 10681068 Hamar Inland of Eastern Norway Ancient Hamar Cathedral 11521152 Stavanger South-Western and Southern Norway Stavanger Cathedral 11251125...
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  • of Stavanger, with the establishing of the Diocese of Stavanger, and construction of the Stavanger Cathedral is initiated. Thorsnæs, Geir. "Stavanger –...
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    Alexander Kristoff (category Sportspeople from Stavanger)
    moved from Oslo to Stavanger. His stepfather got him interested in cycling rather than football. He started riding for Stavanger SK. At 16 he won the...
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    (Norwegian: St. Johannes kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Stavanger Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the Johannes...
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    (1856–1862) and (1864–1866). From 1866 he was Rector of Stavanger Cathedral School. Steen was mayor of Stavanger (1872–1883) and (1885–1890). In 1859 he was first...
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  • Kristiansand Teacher's College in 1938. He had also applied for a job at Stavanger Cathedral School, but was rejected by the government. At Kristiansand Teacher's...
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    Kragerø, later the border stretched to Eidanger in the east. Stavanger was the cathedral city. During the Protestant Reformation, Norway became a Lutheran...
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    Kristiansand covering Southeastern Norway (Bishop Olav Skjevesland) Stavanger, seated in Stavanger covering Southwestern Norway (Bishop Erling Pettersen) Bjørgvin...
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    St. Petri Church (category Churches in Stavanger)
    be a new church built in Stavanger that was dedicated to St. Peter (in addition to the already existing Stavanger Cathedral). The new church stood a short...
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