Solveig Lára Guðmundsdóttir

The Right Reverend Solveig Lára Guðmundsdóttir
Bishop of Hólar
Church	Church of Iceland
Diocese	Hólar
Elected	2012
Predecessor	Jón Aðalsteinn Baldvinsson
Orders
Ordination	12 June 1983
Consecration	12 August 2012 by Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir
Personal details
Nationality	Icelandic
Spouse	Gylfi Jonsson
Children	4
Alma mater	University of Iceland

Solveig Lára Guðmundsdóttir is an Icelandic prelate who currently serves as the Bishop of Hólar.

Solveig Lára completed a diploma in theology in 1983 and has graduated in Christian reflection and psychology in Germany in 1999 and in serving leadership and leadership training for women by the Lutheran World Federation in 2010. She became a deputy clergyman in Bústaðapakkarak in 1983, became a parish priest at Seltjarnarnes in 1986 and a parish priest at Möðruvöllum in Hörgárdalur in 2000. Solveig Lára is married to Gylfi Jónsson. They have four children and three grandchildren.

Solveig Lára was elected bishop with 96 votes compared with 70 for her contender Kristján Björnsson. She was consecrated bishop on August 12, 2012 in Hólar Cathedral by the Bishop of Iceland Agnes M. Sigurðardóttir. She was installed as bishop on September 1. She succeeded Jón Aðalsteinn Baldvinsson as Bishop of Hólar and suffragan to the Bishop of Iceland in the Diocese of Iceland. She was the second woman to be consecrated bishop in Iceland.

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