Ingeborg Midttømme Explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Reverend
Ingeborg Synnøve Midttomme
Bishop of Møre
Church:Church of Norway
Diocese:Diocese of Møre
Appointed:2008
Predecessor:Odd Bondevik
Ordination:1987
Consecration:2008
Birth Date:20 November 1961
Birth Place:Oslo, Norway
Nationality:Norwegian
Religion:Christian
Residence:Molde, Norway
Occupation:Priest
Alma Mater:MF Norwegian School of Theology

Ingeborg Synnøve Midttømme (born 20 November 1961) is a Norwegian Lutheran bishop for the Diocese of Møre in the Church of Norway.

Personal life

Midttømme was born in Oslo, Norway on 20 November 1961.

Career

She has been the Bishop since 2008. She was elected as the first female leader of the Norwegian Association of Clergy trade union in 2003.

Midttømme attended the MF Norwegian School of Theology and graduated in 1986. She was ordained as a priest in 1987. She worked in Høybråten in Oslo from 1987 until 1993. She then became the parish priest for Sørfold in the Salten region in Northern Norway from 1993 until 1997. In 1997 she took a chaplain job in Holmlia in Oslo. She was appointed Bishop of the Diocese of Møre in 2008.[1]

Notes and References

  1. Encyclopedia: Ingeborg Synøve Midttømme . . Kunnskapsforlaget . Oslo . Norwegian . 10 April 2011 .