Territorial Prelature of

Tromsø

Norway , Svalbard and Jan Mayen

Continent: West Europe

Rite: Roman (Latin)

Type: Territorial Prelature

Name: Tromsø / Tromsœan(us) (Latin)

Immediately subject to the Holy See

Depends on: Dicastery for Bishops

Website:

Celebrations

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History

1931.04.08: Established as Mission sui juris of Northern Norway / Norvegia Settentrionale (Italiano) / Norvegiæ Septemtrionalis (Latin) (from Apostolic Vicariate of Norway)
1944.03.10: Promoted as Apostolic Prefecture of Northern Norway / Norvegia Settentrionale (Italiano) / Norvegiæ Septemtrionalis (Latin)
1955.02.18: Promoted as Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Norway / Norvegia Settentrionale (Italiano) / Norvegiæ Septemtrionalis (Latin)
1979.03.28: Promoted as Territorial Prelature of Tromsø / Tromsœan(us) (Latin) (without ecclesiastical province)

Contact Info

Address: Postboks 198, Storgata 94, N-9252 Tromsø, Norway

Phone: 776.85.604

Papal Visits

Pope John Paul II (1989.06)

Present Prelates

Bishop-Prelate:

vacant

Apostolic Administrator (2023.08.31 – ...):

Bishop Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. (50)

Bishop-Prelate of Trondheim (Norway)

President of Scandinavian Episcopal Conference

Ordinaries

Prelates of Tromsø (Roman Rite)

Bishop Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. (50)
(Apostolic Administrator 2023.08.31 – ...)

Bishop Berislav Grgić (64)
(2008.12.18 – 2023.08.31)

Bishop-Prelate emeritus of Tromsø (Norway)

Astare coram te

Born:	1960.02.15 (Novo Selo, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Ordained Priest:	1986.06.29
Consecrated Bishop:	2009.03.28

Priest of Banja Luka (Bosnia and Herzegovina) (1986.06.29 – 2008.12.18)

Bishop-Prelate of Tromsø (Norway) (2008.12.18 – 2023.08.31)

Bishop Gerhard Ludwig Goebel, M.S.F.
(1979.03.29 – 2006.11.04)

Iter para tutum

Born:	1933.12.01 (Norway)
Ordained Priest:	1960.07.03
Consecrated Bishop:	1979.05.27
Died:	2006.11.04 († 72)

Bishop-Prelate of Tromsø (Norway) (1979.03.29 – 2006.11.04)

Vicars Apostolic of Northern Norway (Roman Rite)

Bishop João Batista Przyklenk, M.S.F.
(1976.03.01 – 1977.03.18)

Apascentarei para que tenham vida

Born:	1916.12.30 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1940.12.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1962.07.29
Died:	1984.05.03 († 67)

Bishop of Januária (Brazil) (1962.06.01 – 1976.03.01)

Vicar Apostolic of Northern Norway (Norway) (1976.03.01 – 1977.03.18)

Bishop of Januária (Brazil) (1977.03.18 – 1983.07.20)

Bishop Johann Wember, M.S.F.
(1955.02.18 – 1976)

Born:	1900.11.15 (Germany)
Ordained Priest:	1926.08.08
Consecrated Bishop:	1955.05.15
Died:	1980.05.04 († 79)

Ecclesiastical Superior of Northern Norway (Norway) (1939.11.17 – 1944.03.10)

Prefect Apostolic of Northern Norway (Norway) (1944.03.10 – 1955.02.18)

Vicar Apostolic of Northern Norway (Norway) (1955.02.18 – 1976)

Titular Bishop of Vasada (1955.02.18 – 1980.05.04)

Prefects Apostolic of Northern Norway (Roman Rite)

Fr. Johann Wember, M.S.F. (later Bishop)
(1944.03.10 – 1955.02.18)

(see above)

Ecclesiastical Superiors of Northern Norway (Roman Rite)

Fr. Johann Wember, M.S.F. (later Bishop)
(1939.11.17 – 1944.03.10)

(see above)

Fr. Giovanni Starcke, M.S.F.
(1931.12.05 – 1939)

Died:

1939

Ecclesiastical Superior of Northern Norway (Norway) (1931.12.05 – 1939)

Special Churches

Cathedral: Vår Frue domkirke, Tromsø, Troms, Norway
Shrines in the Extraordinary Jubilee of Mercy

Churches by City (8)

Trondheim (↙), Mother of God at Moscow (→), Helsinki (↘), Stockholm (↓)

Statistics (2022.12.31)

Area: 170,405 km²

Population: 7,172 Catholics (1.5% of 484,831 total)

Pastoral Centres: 9 parishes, 2 missions

Personnel: 11 priests (5 diocesan, 6 religious), 30 religious (6 brothers, 24 sisters), 1 seminarian

Pastoral Centres

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