Hisøy Church

Hisøy Church
Hisøy kirke
View of the church
Hisøy Church
Location in of the church
Hisøy Church
Hisøy Church (Norway)
58°26′27″N 8°45′12″E / 58.4409°N 08.7532°E / 58.4409; 08.7532Coordinates: 58°26′27″N 8°45′12″E / 58.4409°N 08.7532°E / 58.4409; 08.7532
Location Arendal, Aust-Agder
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Gustav Adolph Lammers
Architectural type Cruciform
Style Empire style
Completed 1849
Specifications
Capacity 500
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Hisøy
Deanery Arendal prosti
Diocese Agder og Telemark

Hisøy Church (Norwegian: Hisøy kirke) is a parish church in Arendal municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of His on the island of Hisøya. It is the church for the Hisøy parish which is part of the Arendal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden, cruciform church was built in 1849 by the architect Gustav Adolph Lammers. The empire style church seats about 500 people. This church building was consecrated on 11 November 1849. From 1881 until 1992 it was the main church for Hisøy municipality.[1][2][3][4]

Parish priests

Hisøy Church has had many different parish priests over its history. The first full-time priest assigned to his parish was not until 1872. The priests are listed below.[4]

  • Abraham Vilhelm Heffermehl (1872-1893)
  • Vilhelm Bertinus Sørensen (1894-1900)
  • Ludvig Daae Zwilgmeyer (1901-1905)
  • Hans Ellertsen Woll (1905-1911)
  • Erik Olsen Feet (1911-1915)
  • Christoph Heinrich Møller-Nielsen (1916-1923)
  • Eyvind Broch (1923-1931)
  • Olaf Reinhardt Sagedahl (1931-1951)
  • Birger Ulrich Olsen (1951-1971)
  • Volrath Vogt Bugge (1973-1978)
  • Reidar Svoren (1979-1986)
  • Svein Holberg (1986-?)
  • Erik Noddeland (since 2016)

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Hisøy kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2017-11-19.
  3. ↑ Rasmussen, Alf Henry, ed. (1993). Våre kirker: Norske Kirkeleksikon (in Norwegian). Vanebo forlag AS. p. 473. ISBN 8275270227.
  4. 1 2 Ekeland Bastrup, Olav Rune; Sissener Kirkedam, Ulrik (1999). Fra Gård til Gudshus: Hisøy kirke 150 års. Hisøy menighetsråd. ISBN 8291990026.


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