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river Hvítá. Skálholt was, through eight centuries, one of the most important places in Iceland. A bishopric was established in Skálholt in 1056. Until...

was succeeded by Guðrún Karls Helgudóttir in 2024. The church has two suffragan sees, Skálholt and Hólar, whose bishops are suffragans or assistant bishops...

Skálholt Cathedral (Icelandic: Skálholtsdómkirkja) is a Church of Iceland cathedral church. The church is the official church of the Bishop of Skálholt...

the traditional Skálholt cathedral church. In 1990, new legislation increased the authority and responsibilities of the Bishop of Skálholt as an assistant...

dismissed him from office. In 1426 he entered the duties of bishop of Skálholt, Iceland, and was formally ordained in 1430. Three years after being ordained...

subsequently beheaded in Skálholt on 7 November 1550.[citation needed] As a consequence, Catholicism was outlawed and church property was appropriated...

hymnwriter and translator. He served as the first Suffragan Bishop of Skálholt from 1909 till 1930. Briem was born at Grund in Eyjafjörður. His father...

an Icelandic prelate, theologian and lecturer who served as Bishop of Skálholt and suffragan of the Bishop of Iceland from 2011 to 2018. Kristján Valur...

cathedral of Skálholt. Wooden church in the Westfjords. Stonen church in Hvalsnes, Reykjanes. Turfen church in Víðimýri. Modern church in Kirkjubæjarklaustur...

Marcellus of Skálholt (d. 1460 or 1462, at sea, near the coast of Sweden), was a German Franciscan and an adventurer who was the 26th Bishop of Skálholt from...

Iceland. He was Bishop of Skálholt from 1178 until his death. Thorlak's relics were translated to the Cathedral of Skalholt in 1198, not long after his...

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Skálholt has been a titular see of the Catholic Church since 1968. It was the estate of the first bishop in Iceland, Isleifr...

Iceland from 1238 to his death in 1268. He served in the diocese of Skálholt. List of Skálholt bishops Kristjánsdóttir, Steinunn (2022-12-30). Monastic Iceland...

reintroduce Catholicism. Jón rode to Skálholt to occupy it and oversee the election of a new bishop. However, the people at Skálholt were prepared for the attack...

founded the first Augustinian monastery in Iceland. His relics in the church of Skálholt were looted during the Protestant Reformation. His status as the patron...

September 1605 – 5 August 1675) served as the Lutheran Bishop of the see of Skálholt in Iceland. His main influence has been on modern knowledge of Old Norse...

were calling "America" was the land described in their Vinland Sagas. The Skálholt Map, drawn in 1570 or 1590 but surviving only through later copies, shows...

of destroying a holy cross near Skálholt. Bishop Jón Arason of Hólar soon attempted to restore Catholicism in Skálholt by force, but the king declared...

officially ordained until 1524. The other Icelandic bishop, Ögmundur Pálsson of Skálholt, had strongly opposed Jón and even attempted to arrest him in 1522, but...

Leo XIII Saint Thorlak Thorhallsson (1133-1193), Bishop of Skálholt (Fljótslíð – Skálholt, Iceland) Beatified: Confirmation of Cultus Canonized: 13 January...