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Norwegian politician
Jørgen Johan Tandberg
[1]
(3 June 1816–17 April 1884) was a Norwegian politician and priest. He served in the
Parliament of Norway
for one term and he also served as a
bishop
in the
Church of Norway
.
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Biography
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He was born in
Tønsberg
,
Norway
on 3 June 1816. He finished his secondary education in 1833 and graduated with the
cand.theol.
degree in 1838. He was a teacher in
Christiania
at the Christiania Borgerskole from 1840 until 1843. He then became a school headmaster in
Fredrikshald
at the Fredrikshald Borgerskole. In 1848, he moved to
Moss
to be the headmaster at the Borgerskole in Moss. Later that same year, he was appointed as a
curate
in
Hougs
, a parish in the
Diocese of Bergen
. He was elected to the
Parliament of Norway
in 1857, representing the constituency of
Søndre Bergenhus Amt
for two years.
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In the summer of 1858, he was appointed as "third priest" in the
Trinity Church
, a large congregation in Kristiania. In the fall of 1866, he became a
curate
(assistant priest) in the
Church of Our Saviour
, the main cathedral for the capital city of Norway. He was promoted to
vicar
there in 1872, and since that church was the cathedral for the diocese, he also held the title of
dean
of the
Diocese of Kristiania
. In February 1882, he was appointed to be the bishop of the
Diocese of Kristianssand
, based at the
Kristiansand Cathedral
. He was
ordained
as bishop on May 18 of that year. He held this post until his death on 17 April 1884. He is buried in the
Var Frelsers gravlund
cemetery in
Oslo
.
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Picture,
Verdens Gang
6 December 1884.
Personal life
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Tandberg was born in 1816 to the priest Johan Christian Tandberg and his first wife Andrea Heyerdahl Lyche. He was married to Marie Theodora Frølich on 28 October 1847 in
Fredrikshald
in
Østfold
county, Norway. Together, they had 11 children between 1848 and 1870. Tandberg's son
Jens Frølich Tandberg
(1852?1922) was the
Bishop
of the
Diocese of Oslo
from 1912 to 1922.
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References
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Religious titles
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Bishop of
Christianssand
1882–1884
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