Bernt Ivar Eidsvig
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His Excellency Bernt Ivar Eidsvig C.R.S.A. |
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| Bishop of Oslo Apostolic Administrator of Trondheim |
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Bernt Ivar Eidsvig in 2010
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| Church | Roman Catholic |
| Diocese | Roman Catholic Diocese of Oslo |
| Installed | 22 October 2005 |
| Predecessor | Gerhard Schwenzer |
| Other posts | Apostolic Administrator of Trondheim |
| Orders | |
| Ordination | 20 June 1982 by John Willem Gran |
| Consecration | 22 October 2005 by Gerhard Schwenzer |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
September 12, 1953 Rjukan, Norway |
| Nationality |
 Norwegian
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| Motto | Labori Non Honori |
| Coat of arms |  |
Bernt Ivar Eidsvig (former order name Markus Bernt Eidsvig) (born September 12, 1953 at Rjukan) is the Catholic Bishop of Oslo and functioning apostolic administrator of Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim. He was appointed on 11 July 2005 by Pope Benedict XVI, which was announced on 29 July, the feast of St. Olav. Eidsvig took office in the Catholic St. Olav's Cathedral in Oslo on 22 July 2005.
Eidsvig was born and raised in Rjukan. Before his conversion to the Catholic Church on 20 December 1977, he studied theology at the University of Oslo with a view to ministry in the Norwegian Church. He took a theological degree there with the church's historic special task of Church and Society in "The Barsetshire novels' main works of the English writer Anthony Trollope (1815-1882). He also worked ten years as a freelancer for the newspaper Morgenbladet.
Eidsvig became nationally known when, on July 14th, 1976, he was arrested by the KGB in Moscow while he was acting as a courier for the exiled Russian organization NTS. Eidsvig's mission was to deliver leaflets, renal medicine and a handbook of "rebellion" to a Soviet Russian in Moscow who had requested such a shipment, but the intended recipient was in the meantime betrayed and arrested. Agents of the KGB were therefore waiting in the apartment for Eidsvig to arrive, at which point he was arrested. He remained under arrest (in Lefortovo Prison, Moscow) for 101 days before the Soviet authorities saw fit to release him, which happened after Foreign Minister Knut Frydenlund and Prime Minister Trygve Bratteli made efforts to get him free.
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