• 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...
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    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...
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  • Lists of bishops of Greenland: Before and during the Reformation: Garðar, Greenland#Diocese of Garðar After the Reformation: Bishop of Greenland#List of Bishops...
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    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...
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    demography of the population of Greenland including population density, ethnicity, economic status, religious affiliations and other aspects of the population...
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    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...
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    of Greenland, consisting of the Diocese of Greenland is the official Lutheran church in Greenland under the leadership of the Bishop of Greenland, currently...
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  • 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...
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    Archbishop Adalbert had ordained the first bishop Ísleifur Gissurarson for Iceland and also for Greenland is sound. Some accounts are derivative because...
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    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...
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    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...
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    Norwegian sagas and historical works mention Greenland's economy, the bishops of Gardar, and the collection of tithes. A chapter in the Konungs skuggsjá...
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    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...
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    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...
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    missionary who launched mission efforts to Greenland, which led him to be styled the Apostle of Greenland. He established a successful mission among the...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    Pedersen, Canadian politician, born in Greenland Bishop Sofie Petersen (b. 1955), Lutheran Bishop of Greenland Minik Wallace (ca. 1890–1918), boy treated...
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    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,...
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    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...
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    becoming known as the "Apostle of Greenland" and he was appointed Bishop of Greenland. He founded the current capital of Greenland, Nuuk (formerly Godthaab)...
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    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...
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  • 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...
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    Flateyjarbók manuscript. The Saga of the Greenlanders starts with Erik the Red, who leaves Norway and colonizes Greenland. It then relates six expeditions...
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    becomes the first Bishop of Greenland. Ottokar III of Styria, Margrave (d. 1164) Possible date – Eleanor of Aquitaine, Duchess of Aquitaine, queen consort...
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  • 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...
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    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...
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    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...
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    western Greenland located in the Qeqqata municipality. With 2,534 inhabitants as of 2020[update], it is the sixth-largest town in Greenland. Archaeological...
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    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...
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