The Bishop of the Resistance
Eivind Berggrav's Second World War
Last week I announced that I’ll be leading a tour of Scandinavia in June 2024. Thinking about the Norwegian leg of that tour reminded me of the following post, which I originally wrote for The Anxious Bench in May 2021. It tells the story of Eivind Berggrav (1884-1959), the bishop of Oslo and primate of the Church of Norway during the war years of 1940-…
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