Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim
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Territorial Prelature of Trondheim Praelatura Territorialis Trudensis Trondheim Stift – Midt-Norge |
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| Location | |
| Country | Norway |
| Ecclesiastical province | Immediately Subject to the Holy See |
| Metropolitan | Trondheim, Trondheim Region, Sør-Trøndelag |
| Statistics | |
| Area | 56,458 km2 (21,799 sq mi) |
| Population - Total - Catholics |
(as of 2013) 696,914 12,877 (1.8%) |
| Parishes | 5 |
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| Denomination | Roman Catholic |
| Rite | Latin Rite |
| Established | 1979 (1030–1537) |
| Secular priests | 5 |
| Current leadership | |
| Pope | Pope Francis |
| Bishop | Sede Vacante |
| Apostolic Administrator | Bernt Ivar Eidsvig |
| Emeritus Bishops | Georg Müller |
| Website | |
| katolsk.no/mn | |
Trondheim, Norway is the seat of the Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Trondheim, which before March 1979 was the Apostolic Vicariate of Central Norway. The prelature leadership is currently vacant following the resignation of Bishop Georg Müller in 2009 and is being administered by Bernt Eidsvig, Bishop of Oslo. The prelature includes parishes in Trondheim, Kristiansund, Levanger, Molde, and Ålesund.
After the Norwegian Reformation drove the Catholic archbishop out of the archdiocese of Nidaros (Trondheim) in 1537, there were no indications of organized Catholic practice there until 1844, when five residents asked the priest in Oslo to visit them, apparently to help one of their children prepare for First Holy Communion. Trondheim then formed part of the Apostolic Vicariate of Sweden, before the new Apostolic Prefecture of Norway took over in 1869 (upgraded to Apostolic Vicariate of Norway in 1892).
In 1872, a Catholic parish was established in Trondheim, with French-born Claude Dumahut as the pastor. In 1875, the church bought property at Stiklestad in the hopes of building a chapel there to commemorate the martyrdom of St. Olav at the Battle of Stiklestad in 1030. Though the parish was founded, and continues to be led by clergy from the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, several monastic orders, among them Salesians, Sisters of St. Joseph, Order of St. Elisabeth, tried with mixed success to establish themselves in the area. A seminary was established in 1880, graduating a small group of priests 1885 that made the first pilgrimage to Stiklestad in hundreds of years.
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