Ola M. Steinholt

Norwegian bishop
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IntroNorwegian bishop
PlacesNorway
wasPriest
Work fieldReligion
Gender
Male
Birth4 October 1934, Trondenes, Troms, Northern Norway, Norway
Death20 April 2009Tromsø, Tromsø, Troms, Northern Norway (aged 74 years)
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Biography

Ola Markus Steinholt (4 October 1934—20 April 2009) was a Norwegian bishop in the Church of Norway.

He was born in Trondenes, Norway in 1934. He graduated from the University of Oslo with the cand.theol. degree in 1959. He was a parish priest in Vefsn starting in 1971, after having been a military chaplain for some time. He served as dean in Tromsø Cathedral from 1984 to 1990 and bishop of the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland from 1990 to 2001. He died in April 2009 in Tromsø, Norway.

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